Argument presented in article about filters and re-touching is mostly self-contradictory: image from modern camera is heavily processed anyway. Anything from color balance, lens distortion to edge enchantment and smoothing is corrected in software/firmware. I.e. any modern smartphone camera is firmly in computation photography territory - what comes out is not what sensor “sees” anyway.

So a question of additional filter being on by default is really a matter of preference, because so many filters are already on anyway.