Yeah, I wasn't trying to be snarky, rather there often seems to be a "private code shouldn't exist, code wants to be free!" ethos that makes my eyebrows twitch

Yeah, I wasn't trying to be snarky, rather there often seems to be a "private code shouldn't exist, code wants to be free!" ethos that makes my eyebrows twitch in PTSD from reading all of Raymond Chen's tales of depending on undocumented code, e.g. *https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031015-00/?p=42163 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031015-00/?p=42... *https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031223-00/?p=41373 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031223-00/?p=41... *https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230113-00/?p=107706 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230113-00/?p=10... *https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060109-27/?p=32723 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060109-27/?p=32...