I recently downloaded a report of all our user settings from the site, and was horrified to see that (at least according to the report) ALL users are currently set to receive email notifications 1)every time an article gets drafted, and 2) weekly emails about all new articles. Thankfully, due to some kind of bug, this isn't actually happening (as best as I can determine), since it shows me as being subscribed to these, and I don't get them myself.

I reported this to the help chat and was told that this is the default setting and can't be changed unless a feature request is submitted and approved. What??? I would be fired if I started sending out emails to our entire staff of over 10,000 without getting some kind of permission first! But you're telling me that this is a default setting that I was never made aware of and you can't fix it immediately? Sorry, that's just wrong.