On the subject of whether or not this is really a problem because people can just be educated not to do this, the author said: > You'll educate some of them, b

On the subject of whether or not this is really a problem because people can just be educated not to do this, the author said: > You'll educate some of them, but not all. If you give people tools like with, eval, and top-level await, they will be misused, with bad consequences for users of the web. This is still a footgun, because it makes it easy for people to introduce wide ranging and sometimes subtle bugs in their software.