Yep, this is horrible and should be changed. Because of this, there’s even games that ship with SteamVR enabled even though they’re not VR-based, causing those games to start SteamVR randomly. It’s really ridiculous.
Overall, the default enabled plugins are a very strange bunch, and I feel like it’d be a good idea for someone at Epic to go through the entire list and get rid of all of the stuff that isn’t used in the majority of projects (like the half-dozen VR/XR plugins, and niche function libraries). It’d clear out a lot of bloat from packaged projects, and save a lot of time to not have to do that ourselves on each project.