I guess I wasn’t clear in my first post. I apologize for that!
I understand the value of radicals/primitives and I realize what they do. I’m working on being able to recognize and identify them. My question is, is there value in knowing that “𠆢” is technically called “ひとやね” or is it find to think of it as “hat” as TextFugu calls it. (Correct me if I’m wrong but I think a lot of the radical names are the same as the kanji readings as well.) My question is how likely will that particular knowledge come into play? Do people often cite the names of the radicals when learning kanji or is this just obscure grammar that most native speakers don’t even bother with?