Initially the bug report was shot down by systemd developer Luca Boccassi of Microsoft with:
So an option that is literally documented as saying “all files and directories created by a tmpfiles.d/ entry will be deleted”, that you knew nothing about, sounded like a “good idea”? Did you even go and look what tmpfiles.d entries you had beforehand?
Maybe don’t just run random commands that you know nothing about, while ignoring what the documentation tells you? Just a thought eh"
Good devs, good product, I’m really excited about our shitty, shitty future.
There was a bash script for a project that had a typo that caused it to rm -rf your home
Even the official Steam launcher script from Valve had an rm -rf command with a variable that resolved into empty. This deleted everything in the users home directory. Valve corrected the script afterwards. Here is a random blog post about this subject I just found: https://hackaday.com/2024/01/20/how-a-steam-bug-once-deleted-all-of-someones-user-data/