[blucaz]

> Why not just have the installer _ask_ me what configuration I prefer?

Because nobody bothered to actually put in some work to implement that. As I've said on the ML, if somebody does the work, I'll review it. But it's one of hundreds of different settings, and it's obviously not worth anybody's time to do this work, as it's largely inconsequential and trivial to configure via the supported config files. Complaining on social media is of course cheap enough that we get plenty of it.