It’s solved in the sense that it’s just a boring appliance. We’re in the change for the sake of change stage. The days of revolutionary change are behind us.

> How can you call it "solved" when such basics as text editing are broken?

I just want to be able to hold backspace in my URL bar until my link is 'polite' enough to share with someone else. I want it to stop clearing the entire field when I'm only halfway through removing the trailing crap.

What would you want next, a modal editor that understands "clean url" as a type of a text object which you could then select&copy in a couple of motions?

So true. With so much advancement in phone tech I’m still not typing as fast as 15 years ago when phones had physical keyboards. Copy paste undo redo is unnecessarily clumsy. The list goes on.