Chris Siebenmann on Nostr: Blog post: Don't require people to change 'source code' to configure your programs ...

Blog post: Don't require people to change 'source code' to configure your programs https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/ConfigureNoSourceCodeChanges (where 'source code' is anything you ship or that is in your repository, except maybe things you absolutely promise to never, ever change)
tl;dr: apart from the obvious other issues, you're making people who build your software do merges between their settings and your changes to settings files at some point in the future. Merges are terrible, especially this sort of merges.