Some of the ``cool stuff'' is turned off because the veteran users find it so annoying that they protest vociferously each time someone suggests them to be turned on by default.
And this is the wrong point of view. I'm a veteran user. I can turn anything off I don't like, but a newbie cannot turn the useful things on until he gets to know emacs better. The problem is they usually give up (at least the ones I met), because they miss the convenience features!
I support turning every useful feature on by default. I don't really see how a veteran user can find anything annoying. I can put some lines into my emacs and I won't see that thing ever again.
Newbies first! Veterans can fix anything they don't like.
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