Yep... this is exactly the problem. In fact sometimes you are recommended to go and override $TERM in order to fix a bug. Worse, is apps that do “work” but miss

Yep... this is exactly the problem. In fact sometimes you are recommended to go and override $TERM in order to fix a bug. Worse, is apps that do “work” but miss features. Like it is often recommended to set your term to xterm-256color to get high color in terminal apps. It’s not a huge deal, but it is simultaneously not a situation I like or think should be encouraged. FWIW I am quite confident you can do better progressive feature detection in terminals, but until that somehow gains traction we’re going to get a lot of “hey, how come i cant click the link?” and the answer is they are using KDE or Windows.