Holy cow, it's true. Never knew that, thanks so much for sharing.
Just agreeing here. It's a game changer.
I wish they also had a way to search tabs without the address bar. I insist that address bars act solely as address bars so I've disabled all other features from it including search.
It's the CLI component. Thank goodness your insistence is a preference no one else has to live with.
Even a CLI shouldn't be making internet connections automatically or unpredictably. If my terminal had the option to send my keystrokes to some sever for autocomplete suggestions (and market research) or did things like automatically append parts of URLs to what I type by guessing at what I wanted I'd disable that too.