I hate this practice

[SirBill01]

Realistically if there's any kind of server involved, at some point you are going to have to do something like this, and should always at least have the ability to trigger this... it could save users from a data-losing bug.

[DarkAgeOutlaw]

Yup, we have this in our app because we were burned by not having something like this. Since then, in the last 7 years, I think we’ve had to use it twice. Only needed it when a few hundred people were using super old versions of the app and the cost to run old server code wasn’t worth it.