@KatS What's also absolutely batshit is that, at least here in the US, it's also still morally scandalous when you *don't* alter your name at appropriate times. My partner shocked my family when, at our wedding, she was announced at the reception under her own surname rather than my surname. She finds the idea a marital name repulsive, and I support that, but we had to make up a story about how it would confuse her publication history to change names to calm people down.