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> "We're doing this via a flag so that we can control this behavior should there be sufficient outcry."

I love that they decided to do this. I think the justification for taking it away is really good.

I also think that the decision to disable via "flag" shows some prescience with respect to how the public reacts to things.

Great move and a template for "sound product development".

Yeah, except that they're not doing it this way.

>We ended up not having a flag for this. Even if we had it, it would only have been in place for a single release.

Oh! I didn't get that far. Thanks for pointing that out.

From a "best practices" point of view it was a good choice that they at least started with a thought to potential customer reaction.

I do wish they'd left it in. Oh well.

Incidentally thanks for the comment as well, my post above has a few downvotes and whenever that happens I always wonder "what I did wrong"