Why put people's names?
Is this because previously analog processes (i.e. stuff that you could legally look up in a court's microfilm document archive in person and make photocopies of etc.) have been put on the internet indiscriminately? Or is this really generally seen as a desirable property of the legal system?
It also very much depends on the state which everyone seems to forget. There are 50 different states that have different opinions of what is public information. There's a joke that Florida Man is the most devious person around but the reality is that Florida has more information made public which makes it appear that bad stuff is happening all the time there.
It goes back to the idea of open courts, open legislative sessions, etc where any citizen can attend and see everything that happened except for narrow provisions for controversially protected things likes military secrets.
We disagree on how much should be public and im certainly on the end of rhe spectrum that says make everything public (except for military secrets). But there are things that courts regularly make secret like names of minors, health information, social security numbers, etc.