If I did any of this, the FBI would be at my doorstep. I've been told corporations are people and have free speech rights. Sounds like they have culpability too then.
“Recents” is not Finder. That’s actually Microsoft’s useleas UI. It would be far more usable if they did just open the real system file picker. (Msft messed this up on Windows too.)
Heck, most projects I've ever worked on professionally, with budgets in the millions, have been abandoned far earlier than any of the initial sponsors hoped.