QoL feature for better remembering players that went by a different name.

[Jargal]

If they want you to know their old name, they'll tell you what it was themself.

There are lots of reasons someone might change their name, and many of these reasons include some desire for anonymity.

I want a feature for a video game, and don't care for this 5th grade behaviour nonsense. Either that or then a feature to auto remove me from their friendlist (and they being removed from mine) automatically.

I have people worth of years of playing the game. The suspicious behaviour aside (if someone from my friendlist is changing their names way too often), if they have a desire to distance themselves from the people they used to know, then by all means, at least a feature to solve the issue of my friend list having new names out of nowhere.

[Rongway]

friend list having new names out of nowhere.

Just ask them who they are. If they don't answer in a reasonable amount of time, maybe they don't need to be on your friend list.