Why is Ruby on Rails' default_scope bad?

09-Jan-2020 1583
A pretty popular opinion in the Ruby on Rails community is that default_scopes should not be used for any reason. However, often it's not fully explained why default_scopes are harmful to applications. Default Scopes are harmful because they are unexpected and hard to.
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