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I would disagree. Personally, yeah, I agree, default matters. And that's where KDE slacks. It has a lot of clutter, and places things in the wrong places. It is not because they had too many choice, but rather it is that they didn't arrange those choices properly.

For example, KControl - it is not because they have too much options. OS 9 had overall less options than OS X (at least that's the way I see it) but it is still way more cluttered than OS X. Same goes for KControl. The problem is that since KDE 2, nobody seems interested in rearranging stuff. Hello? KDE 2 had way less features than KDE 3.1, therefore a rearrange is really in need. It doesn't mean you just mix around stuff with no particular reason.

Then there is the menu. I actually seen this being fixed now in the CVS, so in the future, certainly not immediate, KDE would be less cluttered in this regard. The problem with the menus, again, is the lack of arrangement. For example, in Konqueror and KOffice, etc., there are too many menus. So many menus can be merged with another very easily - why it isn't done? I don't know. Then the contextual menus put way too much options in there - again, this doesn't mean that the options are the problem, rather the arrangement of it. Developers should have instead place lesser used options in the main menus, and only keep options that the user would likely to use.

So overall, I can't say this proves the "less is more" argument, it does prove that every now and then, do some rearrangements.