I'm in a similar situation. Unless your bot for work is used in 100 servers, locking message content behind a privileged intent will only affect you minimally,

I'm in a similar situation. Unless your bot for work is used in 100 servers, locking message content behind a privileged intent will only affect you minimally, unless of course the library your bot is based on languishes like discord.py, which is a very real concern. The general trend of locking things down and hint at moving to an approved-interactions-only model is worrisome too.