Yeh, it does that, but when you’re in context writing a note, you don’t really want to jump out, trawl through all your other notes, find the link, go back to original note and apply... Really, you want a context menu, or the double square bracket notation to bring up a list, or similar. See. Said I was fussy :-)

double square bracket notation : this is exactly how Passfindr https://passfindr.com implements linking to other notes. Passfindr has a powerful search and searching can be inlined in notes like [[search term including tags, regexp, etc.]].