Similarly, option 1 completely breaks many expected features of links. The article smugly provides an option for control-click, and says the "only" remaining is

Similarly, option 1 completely breaks many expected features of links. The article smugly provides an option for control-click, and says the "only" remaining issue is the lack of hover preview, but completely forgets about implementing middle click, to say nothing of right-click (which can't be implemented). I'm literally BEGGING web devs to stop trying to re-implement anchor tags in javascript. Every time I use some shitty SPA that decides to ignore my middle clicks on links, or worse, treat them as left clicks and navigates away from the page I was trying to leave open, I die a little bit inside.