I have not found any easy way to accomplish to simply check a Checkbox by default. That can not be that hard, so what am i missing?
To complete a previous answer, with a multiple field you can do that to check all choices :
'choice_attr' => function ($val, $key, $index) { return array('checked' => true); }
https://symfony.com/doc/3.3/reference/forms/types/choice.html#choice-attr