I think another way to frame it is asking what the default should be. Continuing the SQL analogy from the OP, you absolutely should be able to UPDATE an entire

I think another way to frame it is asking what the default should be. Continuing the SQL analogy from the OP, you absolutely should be able to UPDATE an entire table, but probably the syntax is at least somewhat to blame, because very rarely you want to run an update on every row. A simple change could be that an UPDATE without a WHERE clause is a syntax error (you could still add "WHERE TRUE", if that's what you mean to do). Another example is how the React API uses funny method names like "dangerouslySetInnerHTML" for things you aren't usually supposed to do. I'm a big believer in making invalid states unrepresentable, and a straightforward extension of that modus operandi could be "make unlikely states hard to reach".