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Counter argument is that error codes and problem details can be used by attackers to reverse engineer and find exploitable parts of a system.
Within reason anyways
So can a 200 response with an error description
yeah, ofc it should only be a curated set of errors where the consumer can do something about it. unknown errors should just be opaque 500s