in favor of what? back to hex?

They're useful as a canonical id, since hints can vary

Why? 🤔

There will always be forks based on peoples understanding of how serious you are. The serious ones are going to take your words literally and do. The take it easy guys will be forked out. Then take it easy guys will realize that they are owning something. Then some of them will get serious because of feeling of responsibility. Then they will start to act like the initial serious ones, causing further forks. I think take it easy guys will outlive the owner type of personalities because it is an open source project and when you own your sunk costs increase. At the end the meek shall inherit. Impressed by your 4d chess bro!

They are such a tease: "I know about a note, I'm not gonna tell you where I saw it, nanny nanny boo boo!"

If we had a resolution service that mapped ID to relays they would be great. But there is no resolution service in nostr.