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In countries that do not use English as the main language, it is fairly common to have non-English SSIDs. URL encoding is incredibly inefficient when encoding those characters.

QR code is not particularly dense (like compared to something like a hard drive) - why waste space that could not be put towards more redundancy (error correction)?

At equal printed sizes, QR codes with less information are much easier/more forgiving to scan.