The reason I suggest this is that... well, besides that I have gotten burned by it, is that it isn't consistent. I am putting from the fringe, 22' putt. I get a 90' meter. I am putting on the green 12', but 8" up. I get a 15 foot meter. Sometimes, a 14' putt gives me the 15' meter, sometimes the 30' meter. Sometimes a 13' putt gives me a 15' meter, sometimes 30'. A 14' putt, 2" downhill will have a 30' meter, then a different 14' putt, 2" uphill, 15' meter. If they aren't going to default to the closest number, then they should at least default consistently.
And I don't know who you play with, but I see a lot more full shots, pitches, flops and punches around the green than chips. And of the shots that I have had chip as default, about half of them there is no possible way to chip them on the green. All I can do is beat them into the side of a hill. Chip is only really useful when you are right at the edge of the green, and best if it's a short roll to the hole. Never really understood the appeal of chip. Why deal with the green at all when you can almost always get the same effect from a full or punch shot landed just short of the hole, just no green to deal with? A bit of wind, but from that distance wind will barely affect a wedge.