*random aside - i also think we should move away from zip to team for vf matched contacts...if the person has a match, you can apply their address and they’ll maintain the correct turfing after a returf
(this is much easier with the api/platform job now)
i think i have a better example of “what technical limitations does the current model pose” than joining on vanid instead of national vanid (which only affects national users)
i think stac and similar efforts are meant to provide many of the advantages of option 2 w/out disturbing option 1, but i think there are still disadvantages to having defederalized data (tho that could be biased from having to solve really annoying multi-state problems)
i don’t actually have any solutions here. i just have a bunch of mostly useless niche knowledge that other people should know.
like i'm happy to answer any texts about what is and isn’t possible to do in van, that’s not really a great system for the long term