Quick look over this so may have missed something, but this just looks like different rendering for the html? I didn't see any "editing" happening on Google's end in the evidence provided at least. The original email data is unchanged, it's just adding a link for something that looks like it should be a link (not that I think that's necessarily a good thing).
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2025
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knowing google, that's now a tracking link