There is a pattern of designing for the most niche use cases and imposing complexity on everyone by default. Shouldn't it be the other way round? Letting those with advanced needs accept the complexity? Presumably they have the know how.

There are multiple examples of this including the binary journal for those with extreme auditing needs, optimizing for laptop wifi networks when Linux is predominantly used in servers, the ironically named 'predictable network names' that are anything but predictable. And these issues being hand-waved away because of some fringe use case with the additional overhead nonchalantly imposed on all users.