That's because actually detecting a piece of content is explicit is much trickier than it seems, and if the browser makes a mistake... well the user is going to end up with a page they may want to revisit being excluded from their browsing history, and potentially impossible to find again. That's not going to go down well.
Add to how different people are when it comes to deciding what they count as explicit (and what they do/don't want to be visible to friends/family/coworkers/etc), and this seems like a feature that'd have to be opt in to work well.