TLDR, I view this as the metadata treadmill: A> Using X to mean `delete` is using up X such that you can't work on items that use X. B> I checked and no one r

TLDR, I view this as the metadata treadmill: A> Using X to mean `delete` is using up X such that you can't work on items that use X. B> I checked and no one really uses X. A> now you use X! B> I checked and no one really uses Y, I'll use Y for X where X would have really meant X. .. It doesn't mean null is good, it is simply available. A good meta has entirely different properties than null and those properties get you out of that treadmill.