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drfloyd51yesterday at 10:34 PM0 repliesview on HN

Some of the suggestions are kind-of exactly that. But they specify not a change to the default behavior, but a new behavior based on the presence of a new attribute.

You could change the default behavior to the “safer” behavior. And then add some sort of “danger mode” attribute. But… devs are usually hesitant to do something that would break legitimate code, such as changing the default behavior would do.