Talk:Future Updates/@comment-25595704-20141119122734/@comment-2170536-20141120014055

This is just a guess on my part, but I have to believe that one of the primary reasons they don't allow name changes is because that is one more barrier to people buying and selling accounts (you can't change the names to anonymize them). Someone selling a prominent account would still have the same name, and would therefore be recognizable. Also, if you were to buy an account, you would be stuck with the name the account came with.