Those are objectively bad reasons for abdicating accessibility though. Subjectively, I also don't agree that it's ugly. There are also other options like borde

Those are objectively bad reasons for abdicating accessibility though. Subjectively, I also don't agree that it's ugly. There are also other options like border-bottom or dashed underline or pseudo-elements with additional symbols. (However, I'm not sure color-only link distinction is actually an issue. It's never been considered problematic in accessibility reviews of the corporate sites/apps I work on professionally.)