> My point is, that behavior is a configuration issue on your end, ...

On my end, and on every "end" where I ever log in. "less" works as a simple pager on my own system, but now I need to remember to possibly fix it everywhere else. "You can fix it in the config file" is not an excuse for broken-by-design software.

> ... not inherent to the less codebase.

Well yes, it kind of is. "less" used to be a better replacement for "more." Now it's something else, which should have a different name. Should "cat" be changed to automatically uncompress files and concatenate archives?