The FIRST thing I do when I launch a new game I just installed is fix the settings to my liking/necessity.
If you force new players in to a game without the ability to do so it can completely break the game and make the first 15 minutes with it miserable and frustrating instead of fun. In a best case scenario I will skip literally every cutscene and story beat to get to the menu and fix the settings. The worst case scenario is you can’t launch the game at all, cannot get to the main menu period, and have to pray there’s an ini with settings you can edit. (God save you if its an Xbox UWP game). Or worse than that, the player just refunds the game and says it “doesn’t work”.
A few examples:
Forza and Madden; which default to extremely high settings, and make you play through an entire prologue race/match before you can get to the title screen. Madden in particular, I had to “play” the entire beginner match at a solid 15fps with insane …