I repost a part of @scott_euser s comment from #3439012-19: Usability review and feedback from testing → because I think it is valuable feedback, that has not made it into the roadmap yet 📌 New Toolbar Roadmap: Path to Beta & Stable Active
The title within the drawer wasn't considered click-able. It looked like a header with no affordance being a clickable link.
> We had clients with the same issue, it was not obvious that they could get at the /admin/people list from this 'People' so they believed they only had access to create new users, but not access a list of existing users to make sure their colleagues could log in:
> A possible solution to that one (which could apply to the lower level as well) is to separate the menu item link from the ability to navigate to its child items:
> This seems to match the advice in https://infinum.com/blog/website-navigation-dropdown-menus/ which shows that its 'Version 2' which has both the top level link clickable + the overview link within the sub-navigation as being the quickest to achieve the task + the least margin of error for users.
> A less clear UX article on it from NN hints at this too in item 12, but the separation only becomes clear when you actually visit the example they point to
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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.