I think it makes perfect sense to have default value support in dry-struct, if that’s what you mean. I only was using dry-initializer because of that capability.
Also, for this particular project I have no need for rails - it’s not a web application and not a microservice.
I am happy to help out with any of the coding, as long as you are fine with the fact that I am not familiar enough with your team’s coding style to promise that it would “smell” right to you. 