[jl6]

Can you not just avoid activating a completion attempt if you are in that scenario?

[forgotmypw17]

I think it is not as easy as you imply, especially if it is bound to muscle memory.

Side note: https://www.google.com/search?q=don%27t+say+just

[ed25519FUUU]

What percentage of your time do you spend on a shell on a host where the disk is failing and tabbing could cause a catastrophic disk read vs being on a perfectly healthy system where tab complete is a nice feature?

[bombcar]

What percentage of your time do you spend logged in as root? ;)