Id like to point out that this is similar to the idea of compression. Lossless compression is ideal, but you should not confuse lossy compression for lossless c

Id like to point out that this is similar to the idea of compression. Lossless compression is ideal, but you should not confuse lossy compression for lossless compression. To illustrate, going from v3 to v4 is very lossy. You lose the reason why shorter messages are better.