That was just the first link I had on hand and I do agree it was fairly innocuous but at least in my line of work, if something like that was to be discovered i

That was just the first link I had on hand and I do agree it was fairly innocuous but at least in my line of work, if something like that was to be discovered in a tool, it'd cause all kinds of problems and we'd have to do a full security audit. I personally like the idea of easter eggs but I just think they are too difficult to do safely in command line tools. Graphical tools are generally fine provided the code running is isolated from anything dealing with a hostile network or safety critical environment. I agree that tech/sec debt are just as bad if not worse but I can see how they slip past the radar. I personally am in the same ideological boat that these tails should be regularly and expediently dealt with but I think the distinction is that most technical debt seems like it was a good tradeoff at the time while there's never a good justification for easter eggs past "fun". I guess I fall into the category of crotchety SW dev but I find it's easier to defend against that future technical debt by just drawing a hard line in the sand and not giving any ammunition towards the unnecessary additions crowd.