Because if you have enough of them for internal purposes then they can't have meaning to users.
> It seems like the opposite has happened. URIs were the default navigation UX, but we are slowly pushing them away.
URIs were the default entry point for navigation, and they still are. That's one way in which they leak, but these are intentional so maybe best not called "leaks". There's also the URIs that leak in other ways, like in the browser status bar, and so on.
Because if you have enough of them for internal purposes then they can't have meaning to users.
> It seems like the opposite has happened. URIs were the default navigation UX, but we are slowly pushing them away.
URIs were the default entry point for navigation, and they still are. That's one way in which they leak, but these are intentional so maybe best not called "leaks". There's also the URIs that leak in other ways, like in the browser status bar, and so on.