[AllenGregoryIV]

To me it comes down to what the goal of the program is. Would I love every team to have programming mentors to teach students to program or students that are dedicated enough to spend the time to learn to program the robot properly on their own, YES. Does this currently happen, NO.

Would having default code provide a better experience to those teams at competition, inspire more students, and hopefully allow them to move away from the default code in the future, YES.

I equate default code to the kitbot. How few teams would be able to turn a long robot if the kitbot didn't already come with the center wheel dropped? Some teams still fail to do this even with the the kitbot and manual, just like some teams will still fail to plug everything in properly with default code, but it will allow us to get more robots on the field quicker and take up less time at competition. It will also allow more teams to be at least somewhat competitive and allow them to decide what new thing they want to learn that year, maybe it's not programming.

I run offseason workshops that go over programming, that is the time to learn how to code the robot. Not at competition where teams are missing matches.