I am fairly reasonable when it comes to new features and can understand people wanting them more and more, at the end of the line, its what sell the product, and helps our users to have wonderful and easy experience.
However, i also think administration should follow the name of a component too, as currently it is not always the case.
Considering you guys release updates on a fast pace, it gets really annoying to do all the additional administration tasks that follow this process.
Changing the default avatar set is one of such tasks that could be avoided
It is fairly unbelievable that is still up to challenge to write the function which will first search for overrides in
root/templates/XY/html/com_easysocial/whatever...
and if it can't find it there, default back to root/media/com_easysocial/...
Did you even considered to implement overrides for default avatars?