Yeah it’s a pity that wasn’t addressed in the article.
This is a little like “we shot ourselves in the foot and then performed surgery on our foot, and everything is resolved now.”
This is a little like “we shot ourselves in the foot and then performed surgery on our foot, and everything is resolved now.”
Perhaps you or I would make a different decision based on the aims that lead them there. But there isn't enough information to say whether or not their decision was a mistake, even if it has lead to a peculiar bug. It may be perfectly legitimate and we just don't know some of the constraints they had.
They also touch on this when they say that it worked for them for a long time.
This is a pretty classic symptom of a system that was designed a certain way early on and then runs into issues as the system grows.
One can argue that this was due to a bug, but it's a bug that they shouldn't really have had to deal with - a consequence that the design opened them up to.