It's tempting to want it by default but it comes at a cost.

I would prefer to have it as an option. Also it's a game of cat and mouse, if shadowsocks becomes popular, they learn to block it better eventually so you need to move to something else. In fact shadowsocks is considered "old", we also have Hysteria, XRay and other...

P.S I don't know why I know these thighs because I don't even have a VPN, i just find it interesting as a technology...