Depends upon whether you see the behaviour of standard Unix as the
measure.

Personally, I would say that if I wanted Unix I would buy Unix, and the
only question important here is whether current defaults make sense or
might be dangerous for the average Ubuntu user.

Cf. Wikipedia, s.v. "Software bug": "A software bug (or just "bug") is
an error, flaw, mistake, failure, fault or "undocumented feature" in a
computer program that prevents it from behaving as intended ... ." IMHO
this applies here: If you copy a file, you expect your file creation
date not to be destroyed. Current defaults prevents the software from
behaving as intended by the bug filer.

Current defaults have massive destructive potential. Imagine the bug
filer doing a backup and then formatting his main hard disk drive
because he wants to install a new system. It will probably be only when
he copies back his data that he will notice that all his creation dates
have been destroyed, which will make it impossible to have his data
sorted by creation date in the future.

Having your data intact, this goes far beyond a mere "wish".

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Copyng a file to a NTFS drive change the date and the time of the file
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