I know of some people that never use 403, but instead opt for 404 for security reasons. 403 implies that there is something they could have access to, but don’t.

I think in some situations that this can be valid, but it shouldn’t be a crux.

I know the guy working on makepad is trying to solve this problem along with vr headsets, Apple tv, etc. It’s really painful because of dependency bloat messing with build times so he ended up rewriting a bunch of things 🤷‍♂️.

Im still wondering whether OPs comment on private property was related to non digital assets or not.

Yep, exactly this.

Just hypothetically, someone walks into your house, picks up a table and leaves with it. What do you do?