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The regulatory aspect is one I get.

The problem is that it infected the mindset of almost every company. Those that worked at companies who needed it brought the mindset everywhere. And like many technologies, people who study what big companies do mimic it everywhere, even where it's not needed.

So your simple stupid SaaS company has some simple object that a user wants to delete that ends up living in a db somewhere... forever.



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