+1 for qubes. with some effort you can get a really nice stack with segmented git, disposable coding agents, package cachers, firewalls, and network visibility.
> Is there any evidence of this being intentional?
A Vercel engineer commented "overall our goal isn't to only collect data, it's to make the Vercel plugin amazing for building and shipping everything."
Not a silly or useless idea at all. Ive seen a custom built ORM that parsed a CEL-like syntax into a SQL query using a query builder. It was pretty nifty. The use-case was to allow users to craft arbitrary queries on a data-driven application.