As it just came to me: What if we implemented a selection when the user creates a new document so they can actually choose what fits their needs best? (Possibly with a checkbox "remember as default")
Pop up a window and ask "What content do you want to create?" Two options: - "digital art (pixel based)" - "content for print (mm based)" (I imagine a big button for each with one showing a computer display / smartphone and the other showing a piece of paper).
Option one would create a pixel based document with a useful size (e.g. 800 x 600 px²). Option two would create a scaled document (e.g. A4) with mm units (i.e. the current default template)
Maybe we could even add a dropdown to the latter where the user can select (mm, meter, inch, ... or even px)-based so most bases should be covered. (An inch-based default template could even further be specialized to be letter-sized)
I think that might solve a lot of confusion and frustration around the whole "default" template as one default might just not be enough...
Thoughts? ;-)
Best Regards, Eduard