And now Google is picking up the definition of footgun(1) from Hacker news!
The funny thing is there are definitions for it in wikionary and urbandictionary yet it is picking the HN one.
There exists an entire class of software that is best avoided. Looks like their usage is highly correlated. As a parallel, I was just saying in a work meeting that the first step towards a good IT environment is not adding some crazy non-causal component like our F5 middlewhare, while waiting for a command to end on our Oracle database. That other class is highly correlated too.