Agreed. Although there are many promising changes in the works, I don’t think it’s a good idea to expect users to go into their about:config, chrome://flags or equivalent and mess with settings.
Not to say that developers aware of possible consequences can’t do some testing in anticipation of broader browser adoption.
Pointer Events Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android
Enables experimental support for the Pointer Events API. This is intended only for testing by web developers, may cause some websites to be subtly broken. #enable-pointer-events