Or navigate to the link without waiting for however long it takes for Google's redirect endpoint to respond.

Ask the grifters and bots. If you don’t adapt get ready to get bulldozed.

Because Google search isn't a hypertext document, it's a web app that presents dynamic ephemeral content to the user. There's no need for stable hyperlinks, since either you will click them within a few seconds, or they will disappear forever, and it shouldn't be a problem to indirect via Google when clicking them, since you just made a request to Google to get the link in the first place.