What are the drawbacks of writing add-on without authentication?

I agree with Remie, but you should be aware of this Confluence issue related to searching for users (user search returns 0 users, not sure if it has been fixed or not):

In order to work around this issue, we were forced to add authentication to a few of our apps, even though they would not have required it otherwise. Other than that, no major drawbacks, and it does not affect paid apps.

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