Burying the URL →
“Today, a Canary build of Google Chrome removed something kind of important from the browser: the URL.”
I don't think that this is such a big deal. Most people don't type out full URLs - they start entering the name of the site they want and either search or let the auto-complete fill out the rest.
“This change is probably a decent usability choice. It’s certainly self-serving, in that it’s clearly the best thing for Google: conceptually, you are no longer using the web. You are using Google full-time.”
Bingo.