Make Node Wrangler as Default

being an addon doesn't really impact user experience. Cycles is an addon and nobody cares.

What does the impact, it is being disabled by default, even though basically everyone enables it and so many tutorials expect you to have it enabled.

It's primarily the Ctrl+T shortcut (for adding a mapping and texture coordinate node) that you see in tons of tutorials that confuses people who don't have it enabled. That should definitely be a default shortcut in Blender as standard.

I don't agree. Everybody got own preferences/workflows and not everybody needs this. It's literally just a single click to enable it yourself. Why should it be default (and take performance/memory/add startup time) for everybody who doesn't need it?! This is exactly why addons exists; to have users decide for themselves what to use and what not. An animator for instance would never need this. And there might also be alternatives out there which people who do need something similar might want to use instead.

I don't know the details but it's partly planned:

It’s planned that Blender 4.2 comes with the new extension system, which increases the separation of features that are core of Blender and part of third party add-ons that were only shipped with Blender. The most important add-on for us is Node Wrangler. We went over some of its features because it’s now more urgent to move some of them into core.

source: code.blender.org/2024/05/geometry-nodes-workshop-may-2024/

Voronoi linker is a nice possible alternative to Wrangler