[jamesRaybould]

Admittedly we use it on private repos so we haven't seen an issue with it, but there isn't anything from stopping you putting the link in other places

[sdegutis]

It's not that the link isn't in the right place. It's that regular old users like me are familiar with the Issues -> New Issue workflow, and will continue to go right to that whenever we want to create an issue since it's a guaranteed way to create an issue.