I checked the Core Lightning github and multipath payments are "on" by default there too. See, for example, this issue: https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/issues/3926
It involved an error report where a user encountered this entry too many times in their error logs:
"Detected large payment, splitting into 100 sub-payments"
I checked the Eclair github too and multipath payments are "on" by default whenever trampoline routing is used (which is the case in Phoenix, which always uses Acinq as a trampoline node)
