There was also probably some "Well, financial sites/tax softwares do it and they have much higher security requirements than we do!". Let's not underestimate t

There was also probably some "Well, financial sites/tax softwares do it and they have much higher security requirements than we do!". Let's not underestimate the power of precedents: someone else said it was crazy at ANOTHER COMPANY, didn't get their idea through, and now other companies are copying it. Additionally, a lot of people in the comments mentioned how engineers are ignored. Being able to convince your peers (like a product manager) of something is a skill, one that is fairly uncommon among "top tech talent", but happens to be a minimum requirement for roles like PMs. Saying "We can't do that, it's crazy!" and expecting everyone to just agree with you because you're awesome at coding just isn't going to cut it. Yeah, maybe the PM should have realized it was insane on their own. But let's consider that given hundreds or thousands of people in a company, crazy ideas might get deflected thousands of times, but it only take one "failure" for it to slip in.