Depends what we mean when we say harmless - It’s not harmless to brand image, consumer trust and ultimately sales if those drop. Intentionally hiding offensive

Depends what we mean when we say harmless - It’s not harmless to brand image, consumer trust and ultimately sales if those drop. Intentionally hiding offensive things in the code does show poor judgement to me. If it was a sad face, fair enough, and if it triggers based on an intentional set of actions by the user as an Easter egg that’s another thing, but using a swear symbol in an error check and committing that to the codebase? Pretty poor judgement imo