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> In general, it is better to leave nothing to user choice, if you can get away with it.

I'm glad there are people out there that do not follow this user-is-an-idiot philosophy and created essential software like Emacs, Vim, ranger file manager, and i3wm.

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Surely you can see that those are a very small subset of the software available in the world, and most software is not like that. It is not "user-is-an-idiot philosophy" to have developers actually do their job, which is to make the tough decisions about how the software should be designed for purpose, instead of offloading that task onto the user.

> and most software is not like that.

If I wanted to use software that works for most people and doesn't believe in allowing users to make choices, I'd use MacOS or Windows. I can't see a reason to use Linux or BSD in that case.

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