So Next.JS actually pre-fetches links when they move into the viewport or you hover over it. It's interesting, but then you get wasted battery on mobile while on bad networks. The world is full of tradeoffs. Tech workers tend to want to consume more battery and data to be faster. Other people want to do less work.
https://nextjs.org/docs/app/guides/prefetching#hover-trigger...
In my view, websites should not take seconds to load with gigabit fiber. Whatever happened to "mobile first"?