I agree with both the original author's thoughts and yours. Surrogate keys are generally necessary but also overrated. Natural keys will always remain important

I agree with both the original author's thoughts and yours. Surrogate keys are generally necessary but also overrated. Natural keys will always remain important. I think it's important to keep natural keys as reliable as possible whenever you control the system. Creating a new surrogate key every time the data moves creates it's own headache as you have to keep track of more and more keys referring to the same concept.