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I disagree, the majority of times I see an input field and the is grey text or numbers it's an example and wants filling in. I went in to NPM with zero knowledge of the software and figured it out instantly, so I'd say it is intuitive.
I'm coming from the perspective of administrative interfaces, not generic forms. See my other reply for the examples that I use daily that made me have a different "intuition" here. Edit: But the fact that I got three replies in like a few minutes also shows that my perspective might not be the universal one. Still, I think it does hold up in the context of administrative interfaces (which is what NPM is).