Recommended by @BWPanda in https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop-issues/issues/3419
As an extra feature request, and slightly different from Drupal 8, what about also merging all the link fields together? E.g. remove 'Content: Delete link' and 'Content: Edit link' in favour of a more powerful 'Content: Link'.
Here's how it could look:
(I couldn't screenshot the select list open, but it'd have 'View', 'Edit', & 'Delete' as options.)
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perfect, thank you
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