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> Sure, but in practice I believe most developers would find it intuitive to just type . everywhere.

Yeah, but in practice I try not to produce write-only code.

Code is for reading more than for writing, hence make it easier to read. If it becomes easier to write as a side-effect, then so be it.

I’ve lived in both and I prefer ::.

I prefer a world where there is no distinction between modules (or namespaces) and object, so '.' it is. (and I'm almost exclusively a C++ programmer).

N=1; I find :: a lot more obvious.