@quincy@chaos.social This is exactly now I feel about it. The only reason I'm still evaluating it is because it happens to be a near-exact match for what I was looking for (whereas other things are not), but they are really not doing themselves any favours with this approach...

And as far as I can tell from my investigation so far, aside from some shaky (but probably fixable) architectural issues, I don't see a reason why they *couldn't* be transparent about it, so I just really don't understand why they're not.