No, @SteveY I was thinking about the original Switch from pickled blobs to JSON data #1786 and specifically the comment thread that I started [Gramps-devel] Switch from pickled blobs to JSON data #1786 - Abstraction . My point was that the change was introducing (at least) three different representations for Gramps objects, Object, dict, and string. But the naming conventions for conversions of these things was all over the place.
It then turned out that there were more representations, plain dict and wrapped dicts.
I think that Doug suggested that he might make the naming and structures a bit more consistent - I not sure whether that actually happened.
I view of another thread here Difference in DataDict vs Object Behaviour , it would seem that there are more complexities about the behaviours of the different representations, which IMHO makes it even more important to make the code absolutely clear even at the expense of some increase in length of method names (after all, code is read far more than it is written).