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I do not understand the mystique of applications that don't come with a reasonable working config. I don't want to invest hours just to try something and see if it is vaguely suitable. Anyone who wants to delete the default config can easily do so.
I guess people get pulled with sunk costs because by the time you get it working you've spent so much time on it.
When "reasonable" deviates on every major setting then it's not possible to provide a sane default. Both i3 and hyprland have example configurations - I have yet to see two identical configs in the wild.
You have it the other way around: it is aimed at people for whom there can't be a sane default because of the highly individual wants.
If you don't intend to adjust your environment to your workflow that's fine - there's KDE and gnome for a reason.
It doesn't matter if no one ends up with the same configuration. No one ends up with the same configurations on KDE or Gnome either. Having a reasonable starting place is courteous and doesn't diminish the experience for those who wish to delete it immediately.
But I guess it does serve some emotional needs for their communities. So I'm glad it's there for those who need it.
Why do you think that not doing something has more reason than "no one sees the value"?
If you think any of those projects would benefit from it... It's a pull request away.
Could be the case 🤔, I think if there was a more accessible WM with no tinkering in config files needed we might see a bigger adoption to the WM workflow (cause it really is more productive)