Board Thread:Support Requests - Designing Your Wiki/@comment-45592444-20200926054241/@comment-1038387-20200930195628

That's a very outdated line of thought, and impractical on many if not most wikis. On heat maps, navigational elements on mainspace pages get very limited traffic and mobile readers don't see them at all.

Readers are used to the concept of search. In many cases, their search is Google and the article they're looking up is their entry point. The links they follow are usually in the article itself - either text or infobox, or they navigate categories. Linkdumping in navboxes just creates a messy unnavigable pile of links without context. Navigation is a quick prev/next, not a sitemap.