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From my experience there are dragons if you try to make this work in general through a mechanism like that. I have only ever regretted this kind of stuff later when the interactions were not entirely clear.

I like this kind of mechanism (circuit-breaker) as a last ditch effort to prevent failures by then erroring out before it does more damage. I never made any good experiences with silently disabling stuff.



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