WowAce

What is the issue?

Please have Bartender default to a "Default" profile. (see below)

Please provide any additional information below.

1) The VAST MAJORITY of users do not want their toolbars to look different on multiple characters. Obviously, most people want the same setup on every character. This would add to "easy of use" and simplicity making it easier for non-technical people to have a working setup on new characters automatically.
2) This would not effect current users since they already have a profile selected
3) If a power user knows how to change the profiles, then they already know how to make it different on their various characters and would be in the profile settings anyway. Only people who don't understand profiles are at a big disadvantage.
3) As an addon pack creator, telling your users they need to go into the Bartender options and set the profile to default doesn't work out well... at all: "OMG! It looks effed up!!" is the most common response.
4) Logging into every character on every server to set the profile is extremely time consuming
5) People who don't understand profiles wind up going into the configuration and redo their entire toolbar set on every character they have.
6) The VAST MAJORITY of addons now default to a "Default" profile with few exceptions. Bartender is one of the only legacy addons that doesn't.
7) Ease of use will always cut down frustration and support tickets

Please consider this small and simple change. It would make things so so much easier on almost everyone when setting up a new character.

Bars are a very character specific functionality, IMHO, and as such a per-character configuration makes most sense to me. You are free to simply switch your characters to the Default profile if thats how you prefer it.