Yeah, I think the early proponents of relational models had a lot to do with setting the culture here. I suspect that some of this has to do with an insight I

Yeah, I think the early proponents of relational models had a lot to do with setting the culture here. I suspect that some of this has to do with an insight I recently discovered: a "natural" key is in some sense a key that's so foreign it's in a "database" you don't control. And if you establish a culture that converges on natural keys, you may end up with more easily cross-operable databases/collections as an asset. And this is why I think it's probably dead. If the boring practicality of generated identifiers didn't do it, laws like the CCPA which are going to, because they recognized the potential of broad cross-operable data to be a liability and a hazard vs an asset.