Plenty of good ideas die on the way to a real user. These four did not, and the reasons they lasted have very little to do with how clever they were.
Ship the smallest honest version
A narrow feature that behaves exactly as described beats a broad one that mostly works. Customers forgive missing scope and remember being misled.
Watch someone use it once
One session of watching a real person beats a month of speculation. You will see them stop at a label you argued about for an hour and never notice again.
Say no in the interface
When a product cannot do something, the interface should say so plainly at the moment it matters, not in documentation nobody opens.
Let the defaults carry the design
Most people never open settings. Whatever the defaults do is, for them, what the product does.
Conclusion
The pattern is unremarkable: decide less on the customer’s behalf, and be specific about what you decided.