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What I've learned from decades of software development: ANY and every component or capability you build into your system, incidentally or explicitly, will immediately (ie tomorrow) become "Accidentally Load Bearing".

Dependencies flow in and onto new components like water. This is a fundamental law.

Even secret interfaces, etc that you think no one could find or touch will be found and fondled and depended upon.

This is why the correct view is that all software is a liability and we should write as little of it as possible, just the minimal that is needed to get the dollars and nothing more.