I don't necessarily want the date links to disappear or appear elsewhere on the page - I just don't want them to link to something that feels unrelated to the page on which they appear. Disabling them for the reading page, should that become available, would probably be what I'd choose... but I'm surprised and disappointed if someone thinks the current behaviour should be default.

Ideally, they'd appear and actually work on the reading page - which means linking to a per-day version of the page they appear on.