Vadim,
If I went through the trouble of adding the feature it would seem pretty obvious that the plan is to make all dynamically-generated content to point to those new pretty URLs. Why else would I add pretty URLs? I can assure you it wasn't for the cool factor.
In my post I made clear that I had to make some data model changes before being able to incorporate the feature into the forums package proper. As a matter of fact, I'm testing my modifications to the forums package as we speak.
-Roberto
