Comment by rooam-dev

Google is grooming next generation of users. It wants to be the Internet, the way IE (the E logo) used to be Internet to many users.

Can you imagine removing house numbers from Street addresses? "Where did you buy that? On Main Str., but there wasn't any number..."

If the URLs are ugly it's not Google's place to regulate that, but website's owner.

If this is to protect users, then instead of removing information, add and/or make it more user friendly.