On new mbp should we upgrade or do a clean install

The title says it all. My friend just bought a new mbp and he is wondering if he should do one or the other or none. There are no third party anything yet on the machine. Has not yet turned it on
What do you all recommend, I cannot recommend anything I killed my mbp and I am on an imac that I cannot upgrade anyway.
Thanks in advance
Mireille

BTW, these are the options and recommendations from macfixit. There are four alternatives, in decreasing cleanliness order:
•Erase and Install: Deletes all your stuff and reformats the partition, giving you an absolute drop-dead guaranteed clean installation. This is recommended if you have a backup of all your stuff (made, for example, with Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper, though it can be done with Disk Utility instead) and are willing to restore your stuff manually from that backup afterwards.
•Archive and Install, and don't preserve users: This moves everything aside to a Previous Systems folder and installs a clean system and an empty fresh user. You then have to migrate all your stuff manually from Previous Systems. This is a good alternative if you can't make that backup; it is a clean installation, but the partition was not reformatted so if there are disk-level or file system-level problems, they will remain.
•Archive and Install, and do preserve users: This moves a lot of stuff aside to a Previous Systems folder, and installs a fairly clean system, but it preserves network settings and existing users and their files. This is very easy but a bit risky, since old preferences and other files are permitted to remain and can cause trouble later.
•Upgrade: Merges the installed system right into the existing system. Not recommended.

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