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> The error messages helpfully suggested fields I hadn’t known about by “correcting” my typos.

Glad to see this being called out. Sure, I get why it's convenient. Misspelling a field by one character is a daily occurrence ("activty" and "heirarchy" are my regulars). The catch is that spellchecking queries and returning valid fields in the error effectively reduces entropy by both character space and message length, varying by the type of distance used in the spellcheck.



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