Using HYPHEN character instead of HYPHEN-MINUS?

I want to open discussion here about the use of U+2010 HYPHEN in our titles, artist names, etc.
Instead of the easier to find on keyboard but legacy ambiguous U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS.

I’ve been editing using HYPHENs for quite a long time already.
It is allowed by Style/Miscellaneous together with U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK (unicode notes: this is the preferred character to use for apostrophe) instead of typewriter straight up U+0027 APOSTROPHE (unicode says: neutral (vertical) glyph with mixed usage / U+2019 is preferred for apostrophe / preferred characters in English for paired quotation marks are U+2018 & U+2019).

While I’m fully convinced for curly apostrophes and quotes, etc.
I am also convinced myself that HYPHEN and MINUS SIGN are more precise characters by definition than HYPHEN-MINUS.

But I feel less confortable to impose it to everyone with my edits when the question occurs.
Like here in https://musicbrainz.org/edit/59022786 where it is pointed out that it does not render properly on some computer.

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