YES!!! There’s an argument to be made about the policy of having the defaults set low, but these two issues are unarguably bugs. In both cases the result is never desirable. Matching the default setting across all platforms has to be easy for Plex, and would give the option of using multiple sources to avoid transcoding. It’s a combination of policies that handcuffs us.
Is a video transcoded on-the-fly from 16mbps to 4mbps going to look much better than a more slowly transcoded 2mbps copy that was already in the library? Seems like an eternal bug.
Making it so all client platforms have the same default setting would be the least I would think they could offer.
Flash back to when nobody could find the ‘Remote Streaming Limit’ setting:
