Render markdown-links in Properties as links

Use case or problem

I would like to be able to have multiple markdown-links (e.g. [sometext](otherfile.md)) and/or wiki-links (e.g. [[otherfile]] or [[otherfile|sometext]]) within the properties and have them rendered there as clickable links. Same as they would be, were they in normal text.

Markdown-links are relevant for me here as I share part of my notes on github with others and wiki-style links do not get properly rendered as links on github.

I want this because I of the way I use it in my Zettelkasten setup.
There I use links to map-of-contents or “hub-notes” as a kind-of “tag”.

This already is partially implemented, as I can have a single wiki-link ([[otherfile]]) within a property, but I would like to be able to have multiple.
If I try to have multiple currently I get some breakage like here:

I expected 2 links to “nim” and “doucmentation”, so I assume that currently is not supported or

Proposed solution

I don’t know about the deeper tech used in Obsidian, but the properties are just a GUI layer over the yaml-styled frontmatter, right? Would it be possible to just change how the links are rendered there?

Current workaround (optional)

There is no workaround for using markdown-links.
For wiki-links you can add further properties and have one link in each. That is an ugly workaround, but it’s there.

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