Bastien Guerry <bzg@gnu.org> writes:

> Here is another suggestion:
>
> 1) Remove the option and make adding the dup link on top the default.
>
> (1) is because removing this option would be a breaking change, and
> inflincting a new option to every user to deal with a hypothetical
> use-case does not seem right.
>

See the attached tentative patch.

> 2) Also remove the current C-u C-u C-u arg and make it the default
>    when a region is active.
> ...
> (2) should be done anyway.

I studied this further and what you suggest will interfere with
`org-link-context-for-files'. It will no longer be possible to select
text <from here>very long
and multi-line link description<to here>, M-x org-store-link, and get
the selected text as stored link description.

The current default of using active region as description makes more
sense, IMHO.