Andy Burns wrote:
> then came rewriting rules and handlers ...

No they didn't. If those morons implementing them had any notion of what
they're doing, it would now be easier than ever to abide by Tim
Berners-Lee's old (1998) rule "A cool URI is one which does not change."
aka "Web Pages Must Live Forever". As it is, this is just one more
example (as if we needed more) to demonstrate how all "advances" on the
Web only make things worse. TBL's well thought out system was the way it
was for a reason. This includes it's obvious and very deliberate
"primitivity".

vide: https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
see also: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/web-pages-must-live-forever/

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