If it is a religion, then it is a very fragmented one.

Anyone remember Geocities?

Most IT departments have the mindset of avoiding troubles instead of making things easy for users. They don’t want to get blamed for security incidents. They want things to be predictable and within control.

They sacrifice a lot of user convenience doing that. On the other hand, IT giants are enshittificating IT services.

I had to play Fallout NV with mods so I could neutralise the piss filter.

When you turn off notifications, they are off. That means there are no notifications to collect. I think you should enable notification but turn off the notification types.

Then, you can access notification history via:

Settings > Notifications > Advanced Settings > Notification History