[kop316]

Agreed. I am reminded of this April Fools "Prank":

https://lineageos.org/An-April-Apology/

LineageOS added an irremovable notification saying "your software is not genuine" to Android for April fools. However, they have weekly updates, and I got this notification before April 1st. The only way to remove it was, as root, flip a setting. Needless to say, I and a lot of other users, were pissed.

When the April Fools prank is harmless, obvious, and doesn't affect users, it isn't a big deal. In the above example, has the notification had a dismiss button saying "April Fools", I would have not cared, and probably have been amused. But when your April Fool's "prank" affects other people, then it isn't so funny.

[sli]

It's not just April Fool's, either. Antd got into a bit of hot water late last year because it was discovered that they included a Christmas theme that got automatically enabled on Christmas and didn't tell anyone about it.

https://github.com/ant-design/ant-design/issues/13098