Pan-clades, good or bad?

[Mickey Mortimer <Mickey_Mortimer111@msn.com>]

Tim Williams wrote-

> " "Pansphenisciformes" is used here as a name for all taxa more closely
> related to extant penguins than to any other extant avian taxa.
> "Sphenisciformes" is suggested as a name for all parts of this lineage
with
> a loss of aerial flight homologous with that of extant penguins. These
> definitions are deliberately not formalized pending recommendation of the
> PhyloCode regarding the proposed use of "pan" as a prefix in all stem
clade
> names (Gauthier and de Queiroz, 2001 )

What are others' opinions on using the Pan- prefix for all stem-based
clades?  Personally, I find it terribly monotonous.

Mickey Mortimer