> irresponsible the maintainers are

Today it's 0.1%, tomorrow it might become 100%. User demand is hard to anticipate, so it's reasonable to include small features that don't cost a lot to run by default.

It's not ideal, but you really don't want to prevent user from finishing their task, because maybe then they'll just give you a bad name and switch to another distro.

That's to say, it's not "irresponsible", it's reasonably maximums (at least trying to be).