turns out this was already working, but was getting in the waysite crashes for some returning users
still need to set it to fail if unconfigured, but that can be part of the new codebase config work in general
having to juggle this in non-prod is tripping me up in certain situations. should be disabled in lower environments unless i specifically want to test it
- set as an env configuration flag
- if not found, assumed enabled
- this protects prod if left unconfigured
- eventually, on new codebase, this should fail if unconfigured
- this should be part of a wider configuration check
- if found, bypass relevant checks