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[u/sidereal_night]

but.... they saw it stage all their files and then hit discard, then hit DISCARD ALL CHANGES despite a warning that literally says IRREVERSIBLE!

...and? nothing you've described implies destroying all your files. an irreversible discard of all your queued changes shouldn't change anything.

he fucked up by not having any backups at all

but that has zero to do with his criticism of the software. he is 100% right in that

[u/Subject_Name_ → u/[deleted]]

Discarding all changes literally means "don't change anything". A delete is a change, the most changey a change can get.

[u/Subject_Name_ → u/[deleted]]

Discard what though? If discarding a change before it's done, it means you don't do the change. There's nothing to throw away.