I acknowledge the idea that a user story exists for conversation. It reflects what a customer really needs instead of detailed statements.

I think there is a good topic you can derive from that. In Ron Jeffries's era, they did not have electric board like Jira, Trello, or other tools. What they have was sticky notes and they had to write down user stories on them, which inevitably enabled them to start dialogues on requirements.

However, nowadays although there are a lot of tools that leverage our communication space, we conversely rely too much on them and gradually forget how to collaborate with others. So some people start declaring they should back to early ways of working, introspecting how to make good use of online tools together with sticky notes to activate members' focus on customer values than just finishing tasks.