It does provide an answer. The issue is that the Google form validates that the user has input a valid looking URL. So he needs to input an arbitrary, but valid URL, and then add that to /etc/hosts so his browser will resolve it to the address of his devserver. The question and answer are both fine as is and don't require any critique or clarification.

I wanted to examine this criticism because I don't agree with it.

so again, what, precisely, is false? Do you deny that a Control+C goes to the foreground process group?

what, pray tell, is false in my examples? I am curious, so please be precise.

And for the downvoters.... bypassing CORS is exactly what is shown for those simply learning the front end. https://codecraft.tv/courses/angular/http/http-with-promises/