They also removed time links again, probably permanently. The comment section used to be part of the actual page, but now it is an iframe of a Google APIs page. AKA the comment section is actually a different website displayed within the page. Comment links worked by opening the same URL but with # parameters such as #t=1213s or what have you. Now that it is an iframe, browsers see the link and can't make a connection to the topmost webpage. Essentially, the browser sees this as a new URL and opens it in a new page.
Point being that browsers can't work with the old method of times in comments. They'd have to create some hacky handing around, if anything, which probably wouldn't work globally across all browsers. They seriously forgeted themselves with this new system.