That’s still something I have to remember
The new method was forcing people like me, who work heavily with Obsidian all day, to switch from a simple click, to some clumsy horrible “drag and drop” or CTRL+ALT+click (which is a half broken solution anyway).
And it was adding nothing new in terms of behavior because you can still open a note in a new tab with the mouse-wheel button (or CTRL+left click)…
Are you suggesting that doing a simple mouse-wheel click is harder than doing a slow and clumsy Drag-and-Drop, or CTRL+ALT+Click ?
Also Obsidian is NOT a web browser and should not try to design a user experience for that use case. It’s more relevant to local knowledge base management, and people using it as such had their entire workflow broken. Hence the existence of this topic.
They did the right thing by reverting this mess. It even broke some plugin usages.