honestly? i like to know by looking at the taken list what sort of cast i might be getting into. i shouldn't have to hunt and peck through the usernames on the community to know who's playing who. maybe i don't have a problem with any potential castmate. maybe i only have a problem with one who's not really anyone i have to worry about tagging and we can come to an amenable 'no tag each other' agreement. maybe my char's bff or their s/o is played by someone i just don't get along with. that's something that i can, in any other game, find out just by going down the taken list. that's what the damn taken lists are for. taking away the basic convenience of it because someone cried about how someone might not want to play with them because they're a fucking asshole is not how you mod. usernames are on taken lists for a reason, and while i agree that they shouldn't prioritize anons and potential game players over in game players, they might actually want to take a look at the changes they're making and see if they're reasonable and make sense beyond 'a player asked for it'.