I personally don't believe there is a "one size fits all" with anything in music production including compression and EQ.

Each song is uniquely different and therefore calls for entirely different setting on the FX plugs.

I often start with the same plugin with my favorite preset for a song project. It's not very often that it stays at the preset default settings. I will turn some modules on, others off, and make small, or sometimes drastic changes to the parameters.

If you are trying to balance a vocal track...... just load an instance of Waves Vocal Rider. It is the one plug in where I rarely adjust from the preset default settings. It's kinda like having someone setting there looking ahead at the upcoming volume levels and turning up the lower stuff and backing off the other stuff that's about to scrape the ceiling, and all without over-compressing the mess out of the track, in real time.

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Add nothing that adds nothing to the music.
You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both.

The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.