Image links acting very strangely

Using Ghost
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An image inserted in a post via either Markdown or HTML, with a wrapped link tag, is rendered as a static image (i.e. not hyperlinked) in some circumstances.

Infra:
Ubuntu Linux 18.04 (Bionic Beaver)
Ghost 3.36
Database server: MySQL 8.0.23
Web server nginx/1.14.0
Node.js 12.19.0
Certbot 0.31.0

[1] Image may be loaded by dragging onto a Markdown edit block, or by loading to a static asset path (nginx serves /file/* directly, but ghost via proxy socket).

[2] Image code is modified to this format:

[![image_name](image_url)](my_link)

[3] Post is saved, published

[4] ‘View Page’ preview link shows a temporary page with correctly working hyperlinks

[5] If published page is loaded at permanent URL, images are static with no hyperlinks. No hyperinks visible in HTML source. Mac Pro with Safari, Chrome, Firefox all the same.

[6] No joy from any of force-reload, new private window, ghost buster, nginx restart, ghost restart

[7] But my iPhone receives page with working hyperlinked images.

[8] Same results for a nearby friend: Mac Pro multiple browsers - no links. Samsung phone: has links.

[9] What?

[10] P.S. ‘edit hyperlink’ feature not available on image blocks, contrary to assertions in some other forum articles.

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Please upgrade your version of Ghost. Linked images in markdown were buggy and could potentially become broken when saving between 3.0 and 4.2.1.

[10] P.S. ‘edit hyperlink’ feature not available on image blocks, contrary to assertions in some other forum articles.

This feature is only available from 4.0 onwards.

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Acknowledge buggy Markdown, however we found aggravating factors …

Post slug is incremented to e.g. about-2 then about-3 without any warning, while the older about/ remains available. Revision of a slug (and hence URL) should not be silent!! Obsolete revisions should receive a watermark or badge indicating they are stale.

Differences between laptop and mobile are due to different navigation pathways, laptops used static nav link in wide-format nav bar, but this link is not available on phones so they navigate via recent post cards into the more recent URL/ recent revision of page. Obvious once the slug revisioning is detected.

Gaaah !