The fitter doesn’t have to select it. But in my case what happened was that I used to have Resound Omnias and my audiologist had updated my fitting only a month ago. So when the Vivia finally became available, she used all the settings from my Omnias to set up the Vivias for me. I was using Autoscope and this just got copied across to the Vivias.
But when I connected to SmartFit myself at home, I noticed that Intelligent Focus wasn’t selected and looked into that before changing the setting. Then coincidentally I came across your post.
But I don’t know whether it’s a similar reason that yours was not set to the default. Anyway you are now informed enough to sort it out!