ArcGIS Pro should be smart enough to maintain existing metadata if a field is renamed
So I am in a really big fan of documenting information about a field in its metadata. I show an example below, here I comment on a field called CrossingType_2011:
Not enough people do this but that's another issue!
Anyway as I work on various projects that run for many years I often have to go back and augment my datasets. Rather than creating copies of the data I sometimes add new fields and sometimes this requires me to rename a field. If using the example above I may have renamed CrossingType_2011 to say CrossingType.
The problem is that ArcGIS Pro blitzes any existing metadata at the field level if you rename a field. So for example I have all this information documented for field CrossingType_2011 but when I rename it to CrossingType is loses it all. If you have a field with a domain and you went to the great effort of adding all that under enumeration you loose that too.
ArcGIS Pro should be smart enough to maintain existing metadata if a field is renamed and may be insert into the field description text saying "renamed from XXX".