I'm always amazed at the amount of effort people put into destroying the default configuration.
From a newbie point of view the configuration for FreeRADIUS is huge, and for the most part yes you do leave it alone - so why is this config visible? remove it/hide it/embed it.
Would it not be worth then looking at how the server is configured on a whole and moving items that shouldn't be reconfigured into separate config files, or provide a form of configuration that has a basic "out of the source" config, but then you create your own config file which is loaded on top of the base config and if you want to change options you then override the section you want to change. You've been around long enough to realise people don't read, they just want to get on and do, give them 101 config files with lots of options and they are going to "play", you're probably just as guilty of this yourself when confronted with new software. Steve