why is this such a bad thing? it's not really any different from using a uuid as a user facing key, which basically everyone does.

and trying to protect your moat isn't automatically a bad thing. they clearly feel it's helping competition, so they're closing a hole. competition is good doesn't mean help your competitors.

- coming from someone who's been using fastmail as my personal for ~10 years because i don't want my emails to be backprop fodder