Huh?
If I search for "who founded the new york times", then immediately below the three-line snippet answer, is a big (not small) blue link to "The New York Times - Wikipedia". In fact, it's literally the easiest, most prominent thing on the page for me to click on. Google is helping to guide me on to visit Wikipedia for more info.
I think you're confusing the short excerpts (with have a clear, obvious Wikipedia link) with Google's Knowledge Graph results, which is a different thing and is based on many different sources.
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|who founded the new york times|
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> Search Results
> The New York Times/Founder
> Henry Jarvis Raymond [link to google query |Henry Jarvis Raymond|]
> The New York Times was founded as the New-York Daily Times on September 18, 1851. Founded by journalist and politician Henry Jarvis Raymond and former banker George Jones, the Times was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company.
> The New York Times - Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times]
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|"who founded the new york times"|
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> Henry Jarvis Raymond [link to google query |Henry Jarvis Raymond|]
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Quotes look for exact results on Google.
I have exactly the same problem, so I hate those Wikipedia boxes. Half of the time I go to a Wiki page for some term then switch to another language (either because I searched an unknown word or because I’m searching for a translation) so the box don’t solve my need. The other half I want more info than what is displayed anyway. And I also find super confusing the position of the link, I have to search for it each and every time.
I almost always want more information, and Google tries to make the Wikipedia link as unintuitive as possible in order to keep the user on Google property.
What's more, showing the info box means that the real article link is removed from the results list.
Edit: to clarify, I do find the blue Wikipedia link decidedly small and I often have to actively look for it instead of it being an intuitive click and clear on first sight, especially on mobile.
WRT to the results, they do indeed seem to appear now, but often not in the first or second position. (I do remember that not being the case previously, but I admittedly might be mistaken)