Forking from the ask in #30878, which contains two separated issue.
Changing the default action.destructive_requires_name to true seems a legitimate request and could save a few disastrous situations.
If I read the following line correctly, it still defaults to false in 7.8.1?
https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/v7.8.1/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/support/DestructiveOperations.java#L36