Quote Originally Posted by Waeksyn View Post
If they institute a name change feature, they need to:
  1. Add a feature where you can display the "formerly known as" name in search data for that character.
  2. Automatically update Blists with the new character name.
Supposedly blacklists already do this, and if so, that sorta removes any reason for your #1 point too.

Besides that, people keep the same character ID on lodestone, so if you really want to be some creepy stalker, you can just bookmark people in case they change their names.