…and this is the reason I added this to my root .bashrc:
export PS1="\h:\$(realpath .)\$ "
no more following symlinks on a remote mount and forgetting about it.

There have been some efforts to mitigate this by adding warnings where appropriate. But that doesn’t stop certain people from ignoring those warnings and typing “Yes, do as I say!” and bricking their install anyway.

See if a teacher did that for real today nobody there would laugh.
Not because it isn’t funny but because most of them can’t read and wouldn’t get it! 🥁