I don't know if @shantini shares the same thoughts or concerns that I do, but a few of my own open questions from the thread that produced the GH issue:
Specifically, there are some questions about compatibility with various formats (what does it mean to encode a UTF-16 view into a format that only supports UTF-8 strings?) and ownership (what does it mean semantically to try to decode a String view?). I won't rehash the contents here (though there isn't much more to them) but I think there are some interesting things worth exploring here!