@justinormont and the text team tuned default n-gram lengths for the default text recipe in the internal repo
These defaults are:
Word -- bigrams (w/ unigrams)
Character -- trigrams (w/o unigrams and bigrams)
One chart from his findings:

The line w/ the light blue call-out represents current ML.NET defaults (Unigram + Trichar)
The line w/ the light green call-out is the requested change (Bigram + Trichar)
The line w/ the pink call-out shows the Trigram+Trichar is better in terms of accuracy, but with a time hit, and accuracy has a cross over at NumIterations > 8 for Averaged Perceptron learner.