It seems this is becoming more a question of who needs the ID and for what purposes.

I am in full agreement that developers should by all rights be able to find an ID relatively easily, but perhaps the average user or non-technically inclined blogger may need something a bit more obvious. Which IMHO still falls to the developer to provide a method if their theme or plugin needs the details for the end-user to make use of it.
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