I totally agree with the post, linking is somewhat broken. In our application (https://codeable.io), we have a table with tasks, where each row links to the single view for the task. Inner wrapping each <td> didn't really "feel" right, so I just went with javascript approach, having data-link attribute on each table row, then redirecting the user on click.

I know you might ask what about graceful degradation?, but the truth is our app relies heavily on javascript (websockets) to work, as 90% of modern apps/sites do, so we decided to ignore it. We don't like that, but something's got to give.