[matthewmacleod]

I don't understand this complaint – the convention is encoded in the defaults. If you actively choose configuration over convention, it doesn't make much sense to complain that you had to supply configuration!

[jjgreen]

I mean: the defaults are so dreadful and wrong that I would have to configure in order to use it; and I don't want to do that.

[rapind]

Saying style defaults are “wrong” is subjective (unless of course it actually breaks your code).

I don’t like rubocops defaults either though tbh.

Ultimately to be highly successful I think this has to happen at the language level, and early on (I.e golang).

Rubocop should still be useful for teams, but will probably annoy some of your members.