The big news is them enabling it by default in some fashion (that is when you're in Private Browsing), meaning that all users now have this, not just the 0.1% who understand referrers (and have not forgotten to enable this the last time they installed Firefox).
As a power user who knew about this, you might not particularly care, but for users in general it's great, while it pisses off webpage owners.
Then again, even as a power user it's impossible for you to know about all of these sort of config options, so you might care to use a browser which tries to help its users out while having to keep an eye on not pissing off webpage owners too much, rather than a browser that tries to maximize revenue for webpage owners while trying its best to hide all the ways it infringes privacy from its users.