I think aggregate results are okay (let's be honest, every system in the world does that). It's the individual names that create unhealthy pressures, I think.

Yeah, the conversation eventually became 'we don't want to spend the first three years of operation training parents to be normal about it' and we decided against doing it.

The AP also has a very widespread reporting network. Given the general spinelessness of US elites in the past year, though, I'm making a (probably uncharitable) assumption that the foreign reporting is generally going to be less tainted than domestic stuff.