Blu Aardvark wrote:
I really don't see an "immediate need".
The worst-case scenario would be
an abusive user running a bot on an admin account and going on a
deletion spree at a time a steward was not readily available. This is an
incredibly unlikely scenario, as the bot would have to be smart enough
to unblock itself and remove autoblocks, in addition to having access to
an admin account in the first place. Even if this ever did happen, any
damage actually done would be temporary, as any admin action is reversible.
There's still history merges. In principle reversible, but in practice I
imagine it would take an awful lot of effort if done maliciously.