WTH can't I rename entities without lots of stuff breaking

When I rename an entity, all automations and dashboard where it is used break. I can see why that is, it’s because the entity name is also the unique id that HA uses under the hood. I can also understand that this is not easy to change. But as an alternative, can we have a rename UI that will search through all places where entity IDs are used and then offer to change all those occurrences?

Turns out there actually already was another topic for this!

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