About two weeks ago I entered a discussion with the docs.rs team about, basically, why we have to look at this:

When we could be looking at this:

And of course, as always, there are reasons why things are the way they are. In an effort to understand those reasons, I opened a GitHub issue which resulted in a short but productive discussion.

I walked away discouraged, and then decided to, reasons be damned, attack this problem from three different angles.