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Yep, that is definitely problematic. But it also allowed a sprawling ecosystem of tons of small applications that people could just download and put on their website via FTP and do the configuration in the browser afterwards.

This is easy enough for non-technical people or school kids and still how it works for many Wordpress sites.

The modern way of deploying things is safer but the extra complexity has pushed many, many folks to just put their stuff on Facebook/Instagram instead of leveling up their devops skills.

Somehow we need to get the simplicity back, I think. Preferably without all the exploits.