If rewriting private history is a lie, is rewriting URLs also a lie? Should we all expose ugly /app.cgi?foo=bar?action=edit URLs because we shouldn't lie? Ss fi

If rewriting private history is a lie, is rewriting URLs also a lie? Should we all expose ugly /app.cgi?foo=bar?action=edit URLs because we shouldn't lie? Ss fiction a lie? If all that is a "lie", I'll happily lie to outsiders to present them a nicer image, as long as no harm is done that way.