I think this should be a lesson to developers, set a reasonable retention period for users from day one. Maybe on the back end make it longer so you can avoid s

I think this should be a lesson to developers, set a reasonable retention period for users from day one. Maybe on the back end make it longer so you can avoid some catastrophes, but once you give a user something it is very hard to take it away. I bet Google makes a lot of people very unhappy with this change.