Thing is, I know enough to come in here and ask "why not UUIDs?", but instead I asked, yes, not far from the way you said it, but "why is it this way? Am I the crazy one here?" (the implication of "I think this is crazy and no one else does", as sanity is generally defined by society or group concensus)

Funny story, I'm not crazy in this respect, this time, and the fix is already in the lower-level codebase even though the webUI hasn't yet implimented it, or so I'm told, something that was more-or-less apparent from seeing it working basically the same across multiple clients.

It's a little hard to contribute code from inside a moving(LOUDLY) steel box miles away from civilization, and I would have done some more research were I in a place to do so(contribute code, I mean, you know, best practices and all), but the idea that I would use this handle on github for non-machining related code is laughable, although you are correct on the specific criteria that I have contributed no code there whatsoever. I am well aware that I am more valuable here(not there, for now) as a shit-stirrer with a wallet, and see no reason to come at others with bUt dO YoU CoDe!?