Comment by yelirekim

Ya, I mean, I put "legitimate" in quotes for a reason. I think most people agree with you. This has been a thing that they've been aware of and struggling with for a while.

https://helm.sh/blog/2019-10-30-helm-symlink-security-notice...

Smattering an --allow-symlinks flag all over their commands seems to be the least inelegant way to handle this while still giving users an easy way to maintain compatibility. Maybe they'll come around to it after this.