>Funnily enough you can read the "read" in my sentence above as both present or past tense. It both works but would be pronounced differently.

I hate the recent trend of writing "lead" to mean both "lead" as in "leader" and "led" as in, well, led.

Seems it was just a decade or two ago when the two were used distinctively, but some time in the late '10s it all just became "lead".

eg: "The army is led well by the general." vs. "The army is lead well by the general."