Edit: There's a lot of commentary on this issue before this issue is summarized by rhendric. Current discussion follows from that comment.

Opening an issue as a place to discuss this. There was a lot of chat on Slack about things related to #2437 yesterday, and this idea was floated again. I think it was @natefaubion and @kritzcreek in particular that had some points of why this might be preferable, so please reiterate below 😉