BenCircular

As a webdeveloper of 14 years experience, I 100% disagree. A robots.txt is extremely important to SEO and given Squarespace has intimate knowledge of their own systems that it would be impossible for everyday users to know they should absolutely set the default robots.txt. You need to have more trust in a company that literally creates and runs millions of website rather than some article you read online....context is key here. You get the benefit of their expertise, and essentially they are saving you from killing your SEO in 100s of different way by having a misconfigured robots.txt or missing configurations because you don't know all the paths Squarespace has available. You have asked a lot of questions that if you don't know the answers already, you should not be making changes to a robots.txt and as you will ruin your website, despite what you think. Ideally, having a section in the admin with sufficient warnings that allows a section that is appended to the default robots.txt could be good, but then again it would be a very advanced feature that user would need to understand some real important why and why nots to add pages there.