I’m not opposed to customization, the frequent cockpit memes any time we add some more settings are proof of that - but there’s the power of the default and given it’s what new users first experience, care must be taken to balance not being overwhelming, or underwhelming for that matter (which it probably is right now), making it easy to parse and navigate to what they might want to do first (whether that be get to some lessons to learn how to play, play against bots, jump into live games, kibitz because they’re experienced, whatever). Customization is for the established folks, the initial design matters a lot and we need to keep the new user in mind first and foremost for this page especially.
Those lamenting the good old days of KGS or those who only play correspondence games might disagree