It's the same reason why links are not a tags. The dashboard of my company is a React app, but it has proper routing so opening a new tab at mycompany.com/account goes to your account.
At the end of last year the menu was redesigned, and the links which were a tags were replaced with some other element. So now you can't ctrl click to open pages in new tabs, which was a big part of my workflow.
Oh and the labels on the design of the new menu were removed, but of course there is no title tag to explain what the items are.
I filed a bug report shortly after it was released, and it is - and probably for the rest of eternity will be - in the backlog.
What bugs me most in these stories is that they are actively destroying what worked before. Barbarians with big frameworks. Their company pays them while they make the product worse and nobody notices. Even with user feedback, because instead of going to a solver, it goes to the problem itself.
> So now you can't ctrl click to open pages in new tabs, which was a big part of my workflow.
I came across the exact opposite recently. With Ghostery enabled, one of the company owned websites won’t work with regular clicks. The only way to go to the link is to open in a new tab/window. Infuriating.
At the end of last year the menu was redesigned, and the links which were a tags were replaced with some other element. So now you can't ctrl click to open pages in new tabs, which was a big part of my workflow.
Oh and the labels on the design of the new menu were removed, but of course there is no title tag to explain what the items are.
I filed a bug report shortly after it was released, and it is - and probably for the rest of eternity will be - in the backlog.