[hughesjj]

I mean, regardless of the Bibkey naming, it'll be the same content in the bibliography/citations section/appendix

Personally I hate autoincrementing numeric bibkeys for the same reason I hate them everywhere -- if you remove, reorder, or combine citations, it's a huge pita to work around.

I get if you're working in latex or something you can have the bibkeys programmatically generated, but still.

So long as the bibkey is unique and has an associated value, ill always prefer something semantically meaningful in the text.

I mean, when I see a citation, I'll read the citations regardless (if it's for work etc, casually at home I'll only read it if it seems interesting or if I'm dubious). The only way I could see it being an issue is if I've already seen the citations before and somehow I'm misremembering it or ignoring some context/nuance and I decide to be lazy and not refresh the cache, but at that point it's definitely a me problem and I don't think going to the citations and looking at the source title or excerpt there will be any better.