So, let me back up a bit. I didn't mean to say that my suggestion was the only way, or even a particularly good way. Mostly, I just wanted to suggest that there needs to be a way to make it easier for nontechnical people to use addresses even if they sacrifice a little privacy. Obviously, sacrificing all privacy is not acceptable.  Maybe there's no middle ground in Bitcoin, if so, then so be it. I just didn't want it dismissed out of hand just because it's not ideal in all circumstances.

I just looked up bip32, that does sound like a good fix for when you want to let someone make repeated payments without then all going to the same address.

Mostly, I just wanted to hide the ugly complexity of Bitcoin addresses from casual users.  I'll take a look at the rest of the BIPs and see if any sound like they'd cover what I'm talking about.

Apologies for being one of those noobs that comes in offering changes without properly knowing what I'm talking about.  I should have phrased my question more carefully.  Something like "is there a way to hide the complexity and ugliness and inherent illegibility of Bitcoin addresses from casual users, such that one can easily give out a single human readable token that can be used for multiple transactions possibly from multiple people?"