Is Next Year Going to Be ‘תש”פ’ or ‘תש”ף’?

Apparently, the “Academy for the Hebrew Language” (the governmental language standards organization) has decided next year will be noted in all government documents as תש”ף (instead of תש”פ, like a normal person!).

I believe that distorts the Gematria. The regular פ is 80, while the ending form of ף is sometimes 800! See this essay by Rabbi Yitzchak Ginzburg, and the chart at the end.

And see the following screenshot of the pesukim counts in the ArtScroll Chumash:

At least their decisions aren’t binding on civilians yet…