These changes are kind of debatable because them not saving was an intentional decision before 2.2, and the camera being farther out could potentially clip more geometry where it previously didn't... still, thought I'd open this for consideration; it makes me less nauseous personally, and I'm pretty sick of mashing a bind every time I die. :V
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this should change the default even without adding to the cool config updater, because the cvars didn't have CV_SAVE before.
Hub @ https://github.com/TehRealSalt/SRB2/tree/camera-backport