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equark,

I don't think you were being overly negative. It just tends to be common for people on HN to be more terse than necessary and sometimes things can come across the wrong way. I have taken no offense :)

The sensible defaults thing is definitely something that should be in place. For v0.1.0, the goal was to provide the flexibility out of the box rather than the lack thereof. No doubt for v0.2.0 (already in the works) we'll have adjusted this to make it simpler for the more common cases. We didn't want to limit people out of the box.

Configuration of this kind of thing is hard when you can technically have multiple clusters, so somewhere along the way when wiring up the cluster you do need to specify something :)

At least we have the ability to do whatever we need. Now, with help from the community, users, and commenters like yourself, we can improve things to keep as many people happy as we can.

Thanks again for the comment.