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Every single time someone im's me some url with a bunch of tracking garbage after the ?

I don't use Chrome but you have tracking token stripper plugin:

https://github.com/jparise/chrome-utm-stripper

I'll get right to installing that extension on Chrome for Android...

At this point one should question why it is pain in the ass, not how often does one edit it because it is. Browsers could easily show Notes.app-like editing window for a long urls. There is no reason to force it to be a one-liner, except that it is historical.

It's a pain in the ass.

...and they only made it more of one by making you press an extra button. It's like they took the "easy things should be easy, hard things should be possible" mantra and turned it into "easy things should be easy, hard things should be harder."

I do often enough.

Not really. I do it regularly.