Safari does this too, doesn't it? What do you think Apple's motivation is?
They've introduced mouse support (in 2019 no less), but even then it's disabled by default and buried in the Accessibility settings menu.
While I'm not a fan of obscuring what a URL is actually doing, this already is happening with headers.
But this is news because it's Google.
Apple does this and it's a "feature".
Marketing is a dangerous tool.