Ways you can get to a doc without the list:

- Bookmarks

- Recently Visited

- E-mail (which are automatically generated on sharing)

- It could already be open in a browser tab, either on your computer, or someone else's (and a friendly copy+paste of a URL can fix that)

There is clearly a big difference between "totally useless" and this state of affairs. And it's of great value for users to know this. But thanks for your FUD.