I get that they're different records, www just seems like the one subdomain that everyone expects to be synonymous with the root. Even if that isn't where you w

I get that they're different records, www just seems like the one subdomain that everyone expects to be synonymous with the root. Even if that isn't where you want your resources to "live," it's an essentially free way to help people get to your site -- like googel.com redirecting to google, except, as you said, with like 15 years of ingrained user training.