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I am not a fan nor a user of backend feature flags, so don't ding me for relaying this: they tout features such as central management of these settings, bringing them in the hands of the product team rather than being tugged away in code, allowing for canary deployments where you fade in a feature based on performance metrics, a/b testing, and so on. In their own interest, these folks take an as broad as possible view on what is a feature flag, often including things that you'd otherwise call system configuration or entitlements or permission toggles. It's not a new trend, LaunchDarkly is probably the best known commercial party here, and they've been around for about ten years, and I don't think they were first.