ENS names are going through an interesting phase. 

Original vision was one name everywhere, but L1 got too expensive so people have offchain ENS (farcaster) and L2 ENS (base names, world names). 

The natural progression seems to be towards multiple ENS namespaces - is this a net good thing?

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

idk if a phonebook style universal system is something to aspire to or something that is even workable for onchain identity 

privacy issues, embedded accounts, community forks, etc. all examples of how namespaces could diverge