When “reasonable” deviates on every major setting then it’s not possible to provide a sane default. Both i3 and hyprland have example configurations - I have yet to see two identical configs in the wild.
You have it the other way around: it is aimed at people for whom there can’t be a sane default because of the highly individual wants.
If you don’t intend to adjust your environment to your workflow that’s fine - there’s KDE and gnome for a reason.