I also want links back. I miss being able to click a link and open it in a new tab and whatever is SPA these days has this feature broken, navigation history is utterly broken, etc..
Ugh. I'd like to meet whoever implemented GitHub's left side file tree and shake them by the collar while asking "ever heard of the 'a' element in HTML"?
What's even worse is when they use it wrong like some places in Jira: Middle click triggers both the new tab and the javascript to navigate the current tab.
Yes! Being able to open links in new tabs was one of the greatest browser improvements ever, and now we're increasingly throwing away basic functionality that had been shown to be great 20 years ago.
We just got ServiceNow at work. Sometimes I can right (or middle) click to open something in a new tab. Other times I get a javascript:void window. Some links open in the same window, others create artificial tabs inside the webpage UI. It's all over the place and I hate it.