Thread:NoWayThisUsernameIsAlreadyOwnedBySomeone/@comment-32958737-20200211135625/@comment-26143371-20200211194240

There is nothing really wrong with redirects. I personally just don't like them for non-main namespaces. For content pages redirects make sense because of external links, Google's search index, improved internal search behavior etc.

But for image pages I don't know of any actual advantages besides it being more convenient. When I rename images without redirect, I generally use w:c:dev:FileUsageAuto-update. That correctly updates most cases to the new file name automatically and reduces the maintenance effort of doing that greatly.