Okay first off, wow I unignored you and you have a good point! An advanced checkbox isnt a bad idea but it does take alittle to get things to auto-sort to fit which is the cause of alot of 2k4s problems.
I am guessing you are talking about optimizing screen layout to fit all the options, that obviously takes some work and some smart solutions, but it is quite doable, we've seen it done before.
2k4 did suffer a bit from wacky proportions of some menu elements, but at the end of the day, i'd take that over no lacking options any day if thats what it takes.
You can disable auto-taunts! Please look at some of my pictures before mouthing off!
One down, 30 to go.. no reason to shout though
Now I think Epic went the way they went with bot rosters to keep a unified feel, it kinda works as well. So ummz, I dunno it depends if you want a more cohesive experience of a title vs a customizable one. Some might say the customer is always right but in my eyes they never know what they want exactly anyways so sometimes its best to force feed.
There's one problem with that, namely that it needlessly narrows down the target audience of the game.
Allow me to be blunt here: I do not really like vanilla UT, never have, i didn't in 1999, i dont like it now, the defaults for all gametypes have allways bothered me, its one of the reasons i mostly play offline, its very hard for me to find servers running settings i do like.
But, UT's in the past have never forced things on me, i could easilly change the gameplay, or game rules if you will, and make my own themed matches and what have you, with just a few tweaks, and perhabs a couple of good mutators, i could allways change the gameplay from something that annoys me, to something that was awesome to me, its little things really, but they make a huge difference for me.
So if Epic really intends to go with with this "unified" force feeding, then they have effectively killed the franchise for me, to me its selling point has allways been how modular it is, that prety much regardless of what new features or whatsits they came up with, i could allways just change that if they wheren't to my liking, i could allways make it play the way i wanted it to play.
I can't in UT3 though, alot of options that really annoy me, makes me foam at the mouth every time i see them, are not tweakable.