Kyle Meyer writes:
> While I think it's be fair to consider this a regression, I'm leery of
s/it's be/it's/
> restoring the original behavior of stripping the brackets given how long
> the current behavior has been around. Instead I think it'd be better to
> update the documentation and tweak the output on colview's end.
For the "tweaking the output part", it looks this is already possible on
the user's end via org-columns-modify-value-for-display-function.
Here's a lightly tested function that I think does what you want:
(defun my/org-columns-remove-brackets (_title value)
(and (string-match org-ts-regexp value)
(match-string 1 value)))
(setq org-columns-modify-value-for-display-function
#'my/org-columns-remove-brackets)
