It's often not even an explicit choice, it's just default behavior. Up until recently, Rails defaulted to 32 bit IDs, so there are a ton of apps out there that

It's often not even an explicit choice, it's just default behavior. Up until recently, Rails defaulted to 32 bit IDs, so there are a ton of apps out there that could have these issues, especially since Rails has always prided itself on providing sane defaults: https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/26266 https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/26266