Default values are not included in the Smartling translation, and that can be confusing. The user can't know if the value is a default value (not going to be translated) or coming from base locale (going to be translated).

If the page has no translatable strings, we avoid creating a translation job and let the user know. We need to update how we handle default values so they look more like placeholders and are distinguishable from a value that was explicitly set.