Is this another cultural cringe of whining over a callsign. Honestly WTF cares? Is it a safety issue? Is it tall poppy syndrome? It sounds good and rolls off the tongue better.
And as for the complaint about personal email addresses on the previous page - Remember it's easy for us Gen X's and older to say, "Don't use some combo of names and numbers." Remember, we took all the our.name@ email addresses at all the free servers before the gen Y's could use a computer! It's funny looking at all the combinations of youngsters' email addresses.