I think it was not designed for your use case. It is conveniently running in the browser but not a collection of links to html pages. The people quarreling in this comment section seemingly ignore that life is complex, web browsers are complex, web development is complex. Maybe you should think about linear as a desktop app and call it a day :)

My use case is being productive at my work. If it was not designed for that, then not sure what is it for. It comes up fairly often in team chats, it's a resource hog with ridiculously high memory usage, poor browser utility, syntax highlighting selecting random languages,... I'm happy that it fits your desktop app use case, but there are also other people that see this as a limitation and sign of poor design. Web development is complex, but acknowledging that there are poor web apps and better web apps is part of that too. And from my experience and in my opinion (also shared in my team), Linear is an example of the bloated web app that is making the web worse for us, which is why I brought it up above.

EDIT: the parent I was replying to talked about the issue of opening links in new tabs and your answer - don't do it, use it like a desktop app - is basically the problem we are having with some of these web apps.