I am sorry, but I disagree. Such links work properly in every other markdown editor. And only Obsidian treats them in a non-standard way.
Obsidian team claims
Obsidian strives for maximum capability without breaking any existing formats. As a result, we use a combination of flavors of Markdown.
Therefore, such behavior is a violation of the declared principle, and should be considered as a bug.
I understand the undesired effect of changing the behavior, that’s why I suggested a more configurable way in my FR