status-quo-bias

Activate when: user says 'we've always done it this way', 'changing now would be too disruptive', or 'no one is complaining so why change'; a team is slow to adopt a clearly better option; someone frames inaction as safe when omission carries real costs; you are designing enrollment/default settings and need to choose opt-in vs opt-out. Do NOT activate when: the status quo was explicitly evaluated and confirmed optimal (correct analysis, not bias); primary driver is risk aversion over outcomes (use loss-aversion-prospect-theory). More: deciqai.com/c/status-quo-bias