Is there a way to bulk-change user 'names' (note: not usernames)

You can do it from the rails console. It’s more complicated than can be explained here, especially since emails addresses are no longer in the user record. If you have a budget you can post in Marketplace or contact me directly.

Or but you don’t care about the actual email address…

Something like

users = User.where ('username like'%@%''")

Then you’d loop through and use gsub to strip everything from the @ to the end. That’s the best I can do on my phone.