Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] clone: update submodule.recurse in config when using --recurse-submodule

"Mahi Kolla via GitGitGadget" [off-list ref] writes:

When running 'git clone --recurse-submodules', developers expect various
other commands such as 'pull' and 'checkout' to also run recursively into
submodules.

Some developers might, but "developers expect" as if we speak for
everybody is a bold statement to make that needs to be
substantiated, I would think.  Is this something easy to make
opt-in, e.g. "git clone --recurse-submodules=sticky" or something?