[dgb23]

That sounds very careless. Not only does this break an obviously deliberate feature, it also violates the robustness principle. Whether one likes it or not, it’s a guiding principle for the web. Most importantly this „fix“ was bad for its users.

Good intentions, but unfortunately bad outcome.

There was a somewhat recent discussion on here on how OS projects on GitHub are pestered by reports as well. Some athors commented that it even took away their motivation to publish code.

It’s always the same mechanism isn’t it. The „why we can’t have nice things“ issue. Making everything at least slightly worse, because there are people who exploit a system or trust based relationship.