To a first order approximation, nobody actually changes any of these advanced settings. The default is what most people use, and most settings might as well never exist.
Sure, but the people that do change get these settings are people too, and they’re often the type of people that will be vocal about your product and recommend it to people.
1) “There is a setting” is a good way to deflect from the more difficult job of making decisions about what the product should do.
2) Every setting comes with an opportunity cost. More than one product has died under a morasse of way too many configuration flags, or focused on features to please a minority of users at the cost of the product itself.
3) The group that says they want the setting is always bigger than the group that will actually use the setting.
