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Making suggested changes to default would break a lot of stuff. For example, enabling MAC randomization would cause connectivity issues if the user connects to a router with MAC filtering for example.
Yeah this article is paranoia clickbait
Or if your DHCP server hands out static IP addresses based on MAC. It would be kinda good for there to be a default-off "This is a trusted network" check box, which turns off the privacy preserving settings that can break things.