Yes. I looked into consistently using [0] in the past, overriding `__len` and `__ipairs` etc, but kept running into corner cases that stopped it working robustl

Yes. I looked into consistently using [0] in the past, overriding `__len` and `__ipairs` etc, but kept running into corner cases that stopped it working robustly. Despite how it may appear, 1-based indexing is quite fundamental to Lua.