I see your point, and used to share it. But recently I’ve worked with professional designers that use this pattern quite a lot and my mind is now changed. For e

I see your point, and used to share it. But recently I’ve worked with professional designers that use this pattern quite a lot and my mind is now changed. For example I see nothing wrong with a link to e.g. a creation form looks like a button, nor is nothing wrong with a destructive action to have the lower visual weight of a link (e.g. delete this repo; flag this comment; etc.).