JIRA issue linker should allow middle click to go straight to JIRA

This issue link on PRs used to be a direct link to the jira issue, which I used all the time to go directly to the jira issue with a middle click. Now it opens the modal dialog, which is not very useful to me. It's reasonable to keep that for a normal click, but could this link change to open a new tab directly to the JIRA issue if I middle click on it?