Strikes me this should be possible with a simple checkbox or similar. It would reduce complaints about wikitree and improve many profiles in a clear way that everyone should be able to understand, at least outside of wikitree.
I think everyone knows that the forced insertion of "formerly" into the names of historical figures and non Anglo-Saxons makes many profile names unrecognizable, deliberately inaccurate, and ugly.
Anyone who says it helps searching is thinking purely in terms of internal wikitree search problems.
This is one of the apparently permanent problems in Wikitree which gives it a poor reputation for actually caring about accurate genealogy.
I think we all know that the LNAB field is something Wikitree currently forces us to fill in despite the fact that last names do not exist for most people.
But also remember that even among the minority of dead people who had a last name, those who had more than one were NOT all women who got married.
We have to avoid letting wikitree becoming an insiders-only alternative reality.
This is one of those questions where I suppose people will divide between those who hope this website can be useful to non-insiders, and real, accurate, genealogy, and those who define all the aims and concerns of the website in insiders-only "sense of satisfaction" terms - the pleasure of having all boxes filled in.