Entitlements: Use Feature Flags for Permanent Access Control
Entitlements use permanent feature flags to control long-term access, like a bouncer for your app's VIP section. This is how you manage premium tiers or special user permissions, ensuring the right customers always see the right features.
Entitlements use permanent feature flags as a durable form of access control, like a bouncer checking a VIP list for your app's features. Unlike temporary flags for rollouts, these are meant to live forever, defining 'who gets what' based on user type. This is the mechanism for managing premium vs. free tiers or granting special permissions to internal teams. The main footgun is using a temporary flag for a permanent entitlement, creating tech debt and risking access revocation on cleanup.
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