Eli has made points similar to this several times now. Please consider that
any feeling you have about "what people think" about this feature is invalid
right now, because there is close to zero experience with xref and project.
Silence from the people on this list should not be taken to mean anything, at
least as far as judgments about the user interface are concerned.
I just wanted to emphasize this, because I feel the point is not hitting home
yet. Eli is, in a sense, one of your first real users, and so the experiences
he's having right now are the ones to pay attention to.