[glhaynes]

Some other advantages:

- Things might be less likely to break. Certainly the default settings are the most likely to have a test case associated with them. How likely is it that there's a test case around the unique combination of the 35 parameters you've configured that are relevant to the particular operation you're attempting?

- It may be better. A number of times I've heard of some odd default and thought "that's obviously wrong" but given it a chance and learned to like it. Definitely change things that really are important to you, but vendors often put a lot of effort into making good defaults.

- If you're a developer, a less configured system is more likely to be similar to what an average user uses, giving you a more similar experience to them.