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Exactly. It feels foolish to demand N unrelated applications implement support for the same arbitrary ruleset N different times.

Why must applications incorporate implementation details of the deployment environment? Why does the environment owner not have tooling to control where files are placed?

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because the application is trusted with a powerful API, that emparts some obligations on whomever wields it not to do bullshit that shouldnt be done.

This trust is in some cases clearly not earned, and so one might consider that some applications are not worthy of having access to these APIs

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