Which kerning option do you use in After Effects, and which should be the default?

Which kerning option do you use, Metrics or Optical?
Which do you think should be the default?
How would you feel about us changing the default to Optical and creating a new preference where you can set the default?

OK. Here's where we've ended up for now:
One of our software engineers is working on fixing the bug that keeps the setting from being persistent. So, if you like Optical, you can set it that way once and it will be the default for new text layers created after that.
We're not going to change the default right now. Our thinking is that fixing the bug makes it so that the people who want Optical only need to change it once, and we should continue to match Photoshop and Illustrator with their default. Also, Angie makes a good case that even if Optical is the right solution much of the time, having the default be Optical will cause people to miss out when a type designer has done the right thing and done the pairs correctly for the Metrics case.
We'll revisit this decision if it turns out that our incremental step of just fixing the bug isn't enough to satisfy everyone.
Thanks for the feedback, everyone.

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