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This is such a wildly stupid take. If you have reasons something should be known to be bad, you should tell those reasons to people. You may sway existing users that were native, or people who don't use it and wouldn't, after hearing your reasons.
I don't understand your logic of "if I don't say anything, people will course-correct" at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Streisand_effect_examples