In a just world, CTRL-v would paste without formatting, and the more difficult CTRL-SHIFT-v would retain formatting. The vastly more desired (by users, not by product managers) operation should be invoked by the simpler keystroke.
How often do you cut and paste and actually want to bring over someone else’s colors and fonts? 1% of the time? 0.1%?
"paste with formatting" by default is a mistake. the thing you're pasting from and the thing you're pasting to inevitably have different ideas about what formatting is relevant / possible in the given textareas you're copying from / pasting to. it's almost always better to just paste without formatting and then fix formatting (so, the default should have been flipped, but the ship has sailed).
I played around with using hammerspoon to send cmd-shift-v whenever I typed cmd-v but I really needed to make it change depending on which app I was pasting into and that was just past my annoyance threshold.
Isn't it ctrl+alt+v? only seems to work in a few cases, not as a generic. Between OneNote and Word it only works in one direction IIRC, and I can never remember which way. around.
