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> Also, if most of your endpoints require auth, this is not typically a problem.

Many systems are not sparse, and separately, that's simply wrong. Unguessable names is not a primary security measure, but a passive remediation for bugs or bad code. Broken access control remains an owasp top 10, and idor is a piece of that. Companies still get popped for this.

See, eg, google having a bug in 2019, made significantly less impactful by unguessable names https://infosecwriteups.com/google-did-an-oopsie-a-simple-id...