It would be nice if a precedent had been set a long time ago for having to double click or click and hold for actions like this. A prompt saying "are you sure"

It would be nice if a precedent had been set a long time ago for having to double click or click and hold for actions like this. A prompt saying "are you sure" is obnoxious. But I wouldn't mind if big scary operations required me to click and hold for 1 second instead of just tapping the thing.