You're talking about writing URLs as if that's the only purpose they serve. You also read URLs. Same as I'm not going to type a long path to a file on my file

You're talking about writing URLs as if that's the only purpose they serve. You also read URLs. Same as I'm not going to type a long path to a file on my file browser or CLI, I'm not going to type the full, character-by-character URL. But being able to see the path also provides extremely useful information.