I still don’t see the difference. Consider a lawnmower. Its purpose is to cut things. It doesn’t care whether it’s grass or hoses or feet. A common failure mode

I still don’t see the difference. Consider a lawnmower. Its purpose is to cut things. It doesn’t care whether it’s grass or hoses or feet. A common failure mode is to cut the user’s hands or feet. The safety bar helps prevent this. It doesn’t stop you from cutting other people’s hands or feet, and it’s easily bypassed if you want to cut your own, but it’s still a valuable safety feature because this particular accident is so common. Likewise, serving .git is a common problem. Not serving it by default would prevent it. Why is that bad?