MikeI appreciate your fix, however to me this feels like a hack and not a genuine fix.
The default behaviour damages SEO and I feel that is not good. I reckon most people don’t realise this, however I feel it’s more ethical if your users know that your plugin is damaging their search results.
I know it might be hard work, however I feel if you are chasing quality then you’d fix this issue. I’ve worked as a software engineer for decades and unfortunately the default response by most engineers is to provide a hack rather than genuinely fix an issue. I have never understood that attitude. Maybe because the right thing to do is immensely hard?
I hope I am not appearing too critical here, however this is how I genuinely feel about your fix. Although at the same time I am really pleased that there is a ‘fix’.