The points made are all valid, but in all of the times I’ve used XPath, the XPath side of things has been inside the code that we control - I’ve never encounter

The points made are all valid, but in all of the times I’ve used XPath, the XPath side of things has been inside the code that we control - I’ve never encountered a use case where the XPath comes from an external source / is provided by the user (except on websites for experimenting with XPath queries).