Obviously I wouldn’t have gone to all the trouble if it were pointless 
I had thought an important question is whether more people would want it on or off.
Because those who don’t like it then have the same problem of discovering a setting to turn it off - though admittedly in this case they have a prompt to do that, wheras if it defaults off then nothing starts you looking.
I had thought few people would actually want this distraction on the board, hence I chose to default off.
But defaulting on is an easy change - and has the advantage of finding out whether people complain about it