For example, I very rarely create urls directly to a specific controller/action at least on the public side of a site. It’s because I use routes quite freely to create nicer urls, so I’m usually either passing a record ID or such as a param and just the route name.

Personally, I would make a “flexible” url helper: It would work like the standard one does, but you could pass a string as the first param and it would read that as the route, and perhaps pass a boolean as the second, and it would read that as the reset parameter. Haven’t yet implemented this idea, but perhaps I will sometime.