If you haven't been following the Google vs. US Justice Department antitrust case, you probably didn't know that Google tried extremely hard to avoid having any trial documents posted online. That was eventually overturned by Judge Amit Mehta, who is overseeing the case.
Ugh… I have specifically been irritated by this change. It literally takes me more operations to get to a page from my history or bookmarks. It's straight up counterproductive for me.
Maybe switch to Firefox then?