[nlitened]

It's good and predictable that all boolean settings to be false by default (when not set). And the default behavior is the one that is compatible with older version — changing the defaults is a breaking change that should usually be avoided.

[zzo38computer]

Yes, this is especially useful if the boolean settings are stored in a bit field, in my opinion. In the case of Zed, according to the article, it uses JSON, but if a program uses a bit field instead then it would make sense.