this thread is full of clueless middle managers or middle managers who are managing more people than they can handle.
those too smart folks are actually dumb in how to navigate corporate and deal with middle managers.
clueless middle managers only understand feature delivery. they have zero understanding of maintainability, stability and security.
those engineers probably fixed tons of code smells that would completely halt business either by breaking or allowing malicious actors to take over.
but they are not smart on how to communicate that work. now the middle manager only see them when they start to work on small refactors which are actually their way to wind down all the extra work they already contributed and was not accounted by anyone.
There's one problem though, this new API is for the web, so the nature of this storage is temporary - obviously the user must be able to clear it when clearing site data and this what makes it currently an unviable solution for a persistent extensions data storage. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=138321...
asking for permission to a longer storage.local exemption for the user? noooo let's not even think about giving user control of things. let's the European union pass post-fact legislation after file system access is abused by adnetworks. then they get the blame of being annoying, not the browser vendor who sell ads.
let's stop being naive. there are a million ways to fix that bug with better UX and respect for user control, but this is a scape goat to have that feature.