What problem does this address?

When gallery images have a caption there is a blur effect added to the <figure> tag using the pseudo class :before. This effect is not click-through and prevents clicking on the image link. Particularly noticeable with taller the images.

What is your proposed solution?

In packages/block-library/src/gallery/style.scss, line 61, add:

pointer-events: none

Not a huge issue, I just add this to my own CSS styling.