I am curious why “useful in some cases” necessitates overrides when the sort of advanced user that would want to enter a topic by ID, could simply edit…
/t/2075
… into the address bar?
I also worry about arbitrarily overriding numbers, if you type 1984 in the search, you might be searching for
Seems like a candidate for advanced search at best, maybe if you type t:2075 in the search bar, it would take you there?