@DallasNChains It would be to keep track of a channel even through name changes. The channel ID never changes, but the name can. (Name changes don’t happen very often, but sometimes they do.)
@TangoChicken I believe the overall direction is to use IDs instead of names (as seen by ID parameters in IRC message tags and most new undocumented APIs), but that time for 3rd party apps isn’t here yet. Like I said, name changes don’t happen often so you shouldn’t be too worried about it just yet. Detecting that one has happened and manually updating the name is less of a task than it is for staff to do the name change.