I agree that they are tradeoffs and I find it strange to use a term like "sensible" to describe them. In my mind, it implies that if you're not using them you're not being sensible. And in my experience, people who can't explain that these are tradeoffs often use words like that[0]. Of course English is not my first language so that may be the reason why I think that.

These may be useful settings for a certain kind of application under a certain workload. As usual, monitor your application and decide what is suitable for your situation. It is limiting to think in a binary way of something being sensible or not.

[0] Like "Best Practices". Any else you can think of?