The problem is that script outside of our control could use title() and relies on the fact that it actually returns a Page object. But apart from that you could call event.title().title() to get its title in string form.

One long term solution would be to deprecate the title() usage and add a page() method. Then with pywikibot 3 (currently we are working towards pywikibot 2) repurpose the title() method returning a string. To aid scripts in transition we could add a parameter like title(_no_parse=False) which must be explicitly set to True and it then already returns a string. In this case emit no deprecation warning yet but as soon as title() returns a string nevertheless.

Change 218931 had a related patch set uploaded (by XZise):
[IMPROV] LogEntry: page method instead of title

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/218931

Change 218931 merged by jenkins-bot:
[IMPROV] LogEntry: page method instead of title

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/218931

IMO .title() needs to be deleted, as it conflicts with str.title(), and the raw values should be properties rather than callables.

Even if we delete it/replace it by a property this would be tracked by this bug. And I agree that properties sound more appropriate as afaik all parameters have no other parameters. And it seems like a reversed DotReadableDict.

It is just one of many deprecations, for things that need to be removed. We should set up a new task to define what will be deprecated, when.