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> For actual choice made later during design flow it could done with
> back annotation which may be a little bit complicated or forward
> annotate for documentation purpose.

Yes but you're avoiding the problem still - to do annotation of *any*
type you need to somehow know which gate is which.  There needs to be
some way of correlating "these pins on the chip which I assigned in
layout" with "this symbol in the schematic" and refdes is not unique
enough.

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