This would improve compatibility with hyperref (as it would no longer be required to load verse before) and also with the new tagging code which defines the \theH<counter> representations directly. See also https://github.com/latex3/tagging-project/issues/49
Could the verse package change the line
into
This would improve compatibility with hyperref (as it would no longer be required to load verse before) and also with the new tagging code which defines the
\theH<counter>
representations directly. See also https://github.com/latex3/tagging-project/issues/49