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I never understand this.

Why is sane defaults and hidden options a lousy user experience?

Sane defaults is fine. Hidden options limits its capabilities which are sometimes essential.

But hidden options is better than removed options, surely?

You need an easy way to get as close to vanilla as possible, to make support and faultfinding not awful. But you need to provide some kind of hidden method for tweaking to keep power users happy.

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