Hello Scott,
Thank you for your request.
I discussed this change with our Dev Team and we have determined that instead of changing the current behavior in general it would be more viable to create a custom field or a message field to allow the default of the Editor's link URL to be customized.
We will update the status of this thread to ensure everyone interested can stay informed.
Regards,
Stoyan
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