[ars]

> because the specific requests we get are disparate and even contradictory.

The typical solution to that is to give the users a setting page where they can pick between the two contradictory options.

[dang]

The typical solution leads to a combinatorial explosion of complexity, which is no less worrying.

[ars]

It can I know, but it doesn't have to.

With some careful design, and not overdoing it on options you can please most (but not all) people.