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If we get rid of the Default path pattern (see #1215616: Remove the default path pattern since content/[title-raw] is a bad defaut) then we do need to provide some kind of default so the module can do something when it's enabled.
I suggest we provide defaults for the individual node types instead of for ALL node types, since we can't come up with a one-size-fits-all solution.