Navigating to first level menu items is not obvious

The proposed solution -if applied to second level items as well- would also solve 🐛 Second level menu items can't be reached if they have children Active .

Changes are made on on 11.x (our main development branch) first, and are then back ported as needed according to our policies.

I tend to middle-click or ctrl+click on links to open them in a new tab. I try to do this with the "Configuration" top-level nav item but it's not a link, so doesn't work. It would be good to make it a link. I can do the same with the "Extend" item because it is a leaf.

I guess the problem here is that it looks like a title and so user's ignore it. How can we update the design to have this be clear that its a link?