I understand why he did it, having just done l10n myself for a client, our application is now harder to work with, and harder to just even find things, for exam

I understand why he did it, having just done l10n myself for a client, our application is now harder to work with, and harder to just even find things, for example if you search for a phrase you can see on the screen, you get taken to the string file, instead of the string location. It's just an extra step, but it's a little mental drain that you wish you didn't have to deal with. You can't even scan the html anymore very easily as it's filled with all these hard-to-quickly-parse ids instead of human readable text. Another big problem with using existing strings for ids is that if you notice a typo or tweak the phrasing of a particular string, boom, there goes your placeholder.