Just because someone that knows vim can use its defaults does not make them good defaults with zero issues. Or else most people would not have huge amounts of config and plguins to change them.

Though I do admit that by majority of use cases was really more of the majority of people I see wanting to use it as a code editor.

I don’t know anyone that would want to use an unconfigured vim instance locally for editing things over vscode or similar editors. But helix? yeah I see more and more people liking it with out the need to edit any config file. The only real time I see people using vim unconfigured is when interacting with servers where it is more of a pain to get their configuration on them than what they need to do on the server.