> Sure, but that was just one example that stuck in my head from using Ada 30+ years ago. I also remember one of my project partners threatening me with bodily harm because I wanted to change a name, and it was going to ripple through his modules

Sounds like a psycho to me. If you change the name of a variable in any language it will ripple through other modules.

With Ada, in his modules, he could've done this:

    Old_Name : Type_Name renames New_Name;