Not the hardest thing in the world to create your own default startup Performance, and select it manually, though...

The drum problems can at least now be addressed by the Style Editor in GW-8 OS2. It just takes selecting one MIDI note in the drum Part and transposing it to where it needs to go. Not by any means as easy to do as the E/G drum Makeup Tools, but at least it IS doable (and STILL a lot easier to do than most sub-$1000 arranger)...