People figured out how to make phone calls with numbers too, even area codes and special 0's in front. But it was an ugly mess necessitated by the technology. This isn't necessary.

Even if you know what it means, it's still not suitable for reading. If you saw that in search results, how will you decide if you prefer ?id=7678729 or ?id=22107823 ? They're not even sequential. You can't remember it from something you've seen before.

Yes keep them stupid and hide things from them. That's an important part of how computers became popular. A lot of people were excluded in the days of command line everything.