Up to a point, McGyver. I'm a Brit and I missed the "it's obviously terrible", but I could here the ironic amusement at your own former selves and prepared for

Up to a point, McGyver. I'm a Brit and I missed the "it's obviously terrible", but I could here the ironic amusement at your own former selves and prepared for the worst. I'm admittedly not the world's greatest developer, and this makes me realise why many may miss your subtlety in this case: it's blindingly obvious only to those who are knowledgeable enough, or where an author cannily signals to lesser mortals that there is trouble ahead. I suspect you just signalled marginally too little for the mean audience. This is a board read by lots of sorts of geeks, and a rhetorical limitation may be that your optimal audience may be full-stack devs.