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Agreed. It is currently there in Preview, but they stated immediately they'd offer a method to disable it.

This is fair. But much of the value of good software design is sensible defaults. If you need to twiddle 8 different inscrutable, independent knobs to just the right settings in order to make a default installation usable, that's not a good user experience. Most users will simply give up when faced with that level of UI hostility, which is hardly good for business.

I'm going to make a prediction that the default will become "not live typing", and the feature will disappear altogether later.

(And yes, a thousand times yes, sensible defaults. But even more than that, as few preferences/options as possible. I would much prefer people make a design choice, than no design choice.)

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