Few months passed and I still have the same problem. Suggested solution with URLs did work for a while, but over time it became even worse than I predicted: links not only look ugly, but also make text unreadable if there is more than 1 or 2 of them in the text, especially if they are close to each other.
So I came back to using my workaround with {{curly brackets}}. Sadly it does not allow me to make beautiful text in the preview mode and quickly navigate through base, but at least now the text is readable. It’d be really great if we could have some form of “weak” connections that does not affect graph — I find it super useful for notes containing definitions or another reference information