diff --git a/docs/src/main/sphinx/admin/properties-writer-scaling.rst b/docs/src/main/sphinx/admin/properties-writer-scaling.rst
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@@ -2,11 +2,10 @@
 Writer scaling properties
 =========================
 
-By default, the number of writer tasks is static. Enabling writer scaling allows
-Trino to dynamically scale out the number of writer tasks rather than
-allocating a fixed number of tasks. Additional tasks are added when the average
-amount of physical data per writer is above a minimum threshold, but only if the
-query is bottlenecked on writing.
+Writer scaling allows Trino to dynamically scale out the number of writer tasks
+rather than allocating a fixed number of tasks. Additional tasks are added when
+the average amount of physical data per writer is above a minimum threshold, but
+only if the query is bottlenecked on writing.
 
 Writer scaling is useful with connectors like Hive that produce one or more
 files per writer -- reducing the number of writers results in a larger average
@@ -18,7 +17,7 @@ the needs of the query.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
 * **Type:** :ref:`prop-type-boolean`
-* **Default value:** ``false``
+* **Default value:** ``true``
 
 Enable writer scaling. This can be specified on a per-query basis
 using the ``scale_writers`` session property.