They couldn't downgrade the clients?

downgrading? without resetting them? how do you do that? often when complex software updates, they update their database structure, and you can't just go back without reset because the older version does not know what to do with those new columns or that renamed one. I don't know about browser addon stores but I do know android does not allow downgrading apps without uninstalling them first, for exactly this reason.

we updated vaultwarden, but after that the clients were still broken because they have already stored the state they couldn't process.

You can also temporarily use something Keyguard, or why not, permanently given the latest news from Bitwarden.

yes we were using the webapp for a short while, but that always locks to password, can't do autocomplete, and you need to always have yet another tab or browser window around for it.

Kinda sounds like you wouldn't have problems if you restricted updates for your users.

"my users" don't have corporate controlled devices. even our own devices we mostly manage how we want, this is not big tech or fortune 500 top high security with mandated keystroke logging spyware. it does not matter even, as vaultwarden is not primarily for businesses. I could not prevent it for anyone for whom I'm hosting vaultwarden as a favor, even. are you suggesting to install remote monitoring and lockdown software for them all, to fix issues made by bitwarden? that would be insane.

Maybe instead of blaming Vvvalue

where did I blame vaultwarden? its bitwarden official clients are whats so unstable.