This is not a weird edge case or a nobody-could-have-caught this. This should have been obvious and come up immediately in the "how are we thoroughly addressing this dark pattern" root-cause.
If you think the former is uniquely horrible, you've not run into the latter :)
Calling out poor engineering is not prohibiting them from fixing it. It's calling the bluff on "oopsie woopsie a privacy issue again, silly us," for a company whose primary KPI is public profile engagement. The more things like this happen, the less they look like mistakes.
That's a fallacy and being kind to humans is hard.
As pointed out earlier, we do need to let people make mistakes, and often their paths will appear to be non-linear. I struggle with this too, but a world that doesn't understand that is much worse.
either you've never worked at a company or you've only worked at one or two places, and they had astoundingly high standards for successful collaboration. what were they, because now i want to apply to work there.
I stand by my point that this is a symptom of amateur hour engineering.
I note that you seem to have ignored my question entirely, in what I can only characterize as mean-spirited discourtesy.
(Nothing against this PM, btw. But what a bunch of incompetence from the CEO)