Yes, I was thinking the same some days ago. Now that we have -d:danger and -d:release it would make sense to make -d:release the default.
Araq may say users should just read tutorial and manual to learn about -d:release, and I would agree, but many people just do not do that. They copy and paste some Python code, try it, may be dissapointed and vanish. (In the past, before danger/release split, it was often the other way: People always compiled with -d:release from the beginning, and wondered about reasons for crashes.)
