@darius i have what's probably the worst possible answer, which is that i'd like to be able to choose.

Thinking about it a little more, if a regular click always keeps you inside the web client (like v4 if i understand right) but you always have a menu option for "open original page" which always sends you to the external page (is that what v3 does?) then both options are always available, though external page is one step farther.