Yeah, I get that! There would still be a named curve though, and things do change over time. Sometimes I like to force things in such a way that you can’t avoi

Yeah, I get that! There would still be a named curve though, and things do change over time. Sometimes I like to force things in such a way that you can’t avoid dealing with some issues. So, by putting these items in the public key, you are forced to look at them and deal with them when you write a library. Often, engineers will write code correctly because they know all the context. But the next engineer will likely have less and less context as time goes by. Thus forcing context acknowledgement, while seemingly redundant, might be essential to avoiding future bugs.