With that you
have to follow the footnote, read the short form of the
reference and then manually find the long form. With only a few
references, it's not too bad, but that system certainly doesn't scale
to pages with dozens of references.
You make it sound almost as difficult as
turning to the bibliography
pages of a printed book.
That's one step, from the body of the text to the reference. This is
two - from the body of the text to the footnote and from there to the
reference.