I added my thoughts to the comment thread on github, but I agree that, as is, this is not worth the trouble.

On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 9:37 AM Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-steering-committee <ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org> wrote:
Dear Committee

This is a tiny proposal, just about the default setting of -XBangPatterns.  My instinct is that it's just not worth making a tiny change like this, but I'd love to know what you think.

Do respond on the main PR
https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/343
as Iavor has already done

Simon

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|  Dear Committee,

|  this is your secretary speaking:

|  BangPatterns by default
|  has been proposed by AndreasPK
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|  I propose Simon PJ as the shepherd, as this affects a relatively
|  fundamental principle of our work so far (all changes are guarded by
|  language extensions), and accepting/rejecting this proposal likely has
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|  Joachim
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