If all of the concerns already mentioned can be dealt with (and I hope they are!), then I hope that WordPress provides a way for us to track when our posts are embedded elsewhere because that would be awesome!

I've seen talk about moving Post Formats out of core and into a plugin, but if oEmbed is enabled for WordPress posts, Post Formats would be awesome for that! oEmbedding an image post? Pull the image and make it a linkback, for example.

Obviously, real world examples will be far more complex and it may not even be possible -- nothing stopping somebody from writing a 20,000 word essay and calling it an "Image" post, after all. But there are possibilities there for those creative/talented enough to wrangle it into reality.