What's funny to me is that Scot Hanselman, an MS employee, wrote about it for a - not so- long time ago as well:
- https://www.hanselman.com/blog/urls-are-ui
- https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dont-ever-break-a-url-if-you-...
There are people in MS who knows this is an issue. But knowledge is not equal to behaviour.