If at least there could be room for a syntax to let link type/properties be a thing then a plugin could use that new semantic. [] links have already been twisted to accept meta-data for images like size, or alias, so markdown “pollution” would be a bit of an hypocritical excuse.
I find it sad that this link as a first class citizen claim lead to something even less expressive than simple html hyperlinks in the end, a lot of how my notes are linked is to be expressed on the link itself and not on the source or target page, and there is no workaround this, knowledge is a graph, and a graph datamodel is the superior paradigm. I’ll migrate all my notes to the first PKM software to support link types/annotations, even more so if it can be enriched by properties…
I’m totally willing to wait if this appears on the “long term” roadmap, but with no sign at all that this fit or fit not the long term vision of obsidian and no visibility at all on that trello as to the direction that the products want to take i don’t see myself supporting another year 