> principle of least surprise

i’m not familiar with this

>” A more sane implementation of this would involve a prompt the first time an…”

but users of this type of software generally want an easy experience and don’t want to be bothered with details, only conveniently retrospectively users demand to be involved in the decisions.

it reminds me of a pattern I see in small business owner managers where they want to simultaneously be consulted about everything, but are never around the business. You can’t have it both ways.