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I don't think there is a better "default" because the default has to be the general setting everyone can live with. But that of course also means it's not particularly good for any use case.
In general desktop users prefer lower values for snappy behavior when switching thorugh different apps (~10 often recommended). People mainly focusing on preformance of the primary running app prefer higher values (which may, depending on setup) include gamers.
Also there is zram/zswap now (basically compressed swap in memory instead of on disk) which is faster than tradittional swap.
But in the end you can only try out values and watch your systems behavior or run benchmarks to find the proper value for you personally,