I think so too! I don’t like being drawn in by the slightly anxiety-inducing orange pencil icon just to see this:
IMO, we shouldn’t show the pencil at all and handle it internally (housekeeping). If a user happens to care about the URLs, they can automatically learn that Discourse will pull hot-linked images. If that is too much of a change, we should change the default color for these from orange to grey at the very least but that might not be easy to implement because the colors are probably determined by how recently an edit was made 
