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I really think "soft restrictions" statements are undervalued by engineers.
Soft restrictions are things that are not enforced in a hard way, but are part of a spec. They are guardrails, not a wall.
You can't propose anything in this regard without people coming out of the woodwork with one of:
1. Esoteric attacks that the proposal never claimed to address.
2. "But it won't STOP the bad behavior!"
3. "Well if you want that then you should just <do horribly obnoxious and unusable thing>"
@hrefna I like that this can generalize to arguments against making *any* improvement to *anything*
1. But peripheral and out of scope problems will still exist
2. But sometimes bad things will happen anyway
3. But we could do something else that's unsustainable or inadequate instead