I hear that, the reason why it might be useful is for situations when you might want to keep the topic name/slug and link to it but cycle the actual topic.
e.g. megatopics - close/rename the old, open a new at the same slug, you don’t need to change things linking to it.[1]
The case where I did this was sort of similar… but now can’t remember what exactly it was.
I suppose the correct solution here is to use a permalink, but that requires admin access rather than using the naïve approach as I’ve done above ↩︎