I basically agree with everyone, but with a couple additional remarks:

I really find the fonts choice odd: we really mean to have monospaced fonts at least in the editor. If somehow Haiku doesn't provide a sensible default for monospace, sure, use a specific one that makes sense there, but please keep it monospaced.

Otherwise, I think it depends on how required those settings are for the relevant options to work on Haiku or not. If for example Haiku ships with its own browser and using firefox will either virtually never work or feel out of place, sure. If it's a preference, not so much.
So at a glance, I'd think that the default apps change make sense, but the fonts not so much.

@elextr's and @eht16's point of distros patching their favorite defaults make sense, but I see one main difference: we've got a preprocessor define to work with here, like we do for Windows and macos, whereas there's nothing similar for Debian/Fedora/Gentoo/Whatnot. This makes integrating those changes realistic (they only affect Haiku), whereas the ones from Linux distros's preferences would be a lot harder to integrate -- and probably a lot more questionable, and we can't anyway have a special case for everyone out there.

So again, I don't really care either way. I'm fine with having Haiku tweaks in even if we'd rely on actual users to contribute it (same as I'd be happy with *BSD tweaks if need be, or basically any other OS different enough to require it, virtually no matter the user base -- yet, don't make me say what I didn't, don't create a fresh OS just to add support here 😉); just as I'm fine with these kind of defaults being left to the providers.

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