And it also is now this way on my old Acer Chromebook.
Down on the shelf to the left of the date the ugly thing that has been staying from the things you put in the download folder is GONE! 😄

About a week ago I sent Chromebook a suggestion for the upteenth time, and for the first time I got a thank you email from them a few days later.

I told them they needed to remove that and they need to make the left over downloads in there be removed when you clear your history.
Because they had to be removed one at a time that takes forever.
And they may have done just that. 🙂