“This is that dreaded thing that us front-end folks are always harping on about: using a div with an on-click to navigate instead of an anchor element.”
Right-click, ctrl-click, copy text, zoom, the back button. Browsers solved all of it decades ago, and React Native ports to the web break it to save engineering time. The cost lands on every user who wanted to open a link in a new tab. Shipping the mobile app in a browser tab is not a website.