Always the same old tiring "this has always been possible before in some remotely similar fashion hence we should not criticise anything ever again" argument.

You could intuitively think it's just a difference of degree, but it's more akin to a difference of kind. Same for a nuke vs a spear, both are weapons, no one argues they're similar enough that we can treat them the same way

I would bet in most organizations you can find a copy-pasted version of the top SO answer for email regex in their language of choice, and if you chase down the original commit author they couldn't explain how it works.

Yeah, but being able to produce nuclear-sized 10k+ LOC PRs to open-source projects in minutes with relatively-zero effort definitely is. At least you had to use your brain to know which blog posts/SO answers to copypasta from.

I don't see the problem with fentanyl given that people have been using caffeine forever.

I used to do that in simpler days. I'd add a link to where I copied it from so we could reference it if there were problems. This was for relatively small projects with just a few people.