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Google identifies links of the form <a href=”#” as uncrawlable and this reduces the webpage SEO score in their Chrome Lighthouse report.

Details here… https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guidelines/links-crawlable

Presumably this also hurts the ranking of the webpage in Google Search results.

Luckily <a href=”#!” can be used and is not identified as uncrawlable.

Is this something that you would consider changing ?