Hand cursor / Pointer cursor on buttons

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Which generators are impacted?

• All
• HTML
• React
• Angular
• Vue
• Web components
• Power Apps

Reproduction case

Hello DB UI Team,
is it an expected behaviour or a bug that a pointer cursor is displayed on buttons by DB UI Mono?

In the ‘old’ DB UI Core, it was documented that the pointer cursor was deliberately omitted at the time:

"Hand" cursor / pointer
We don't use the "hand" cursor / pointer for our buttons, as this is reserved for links even only; for more information have a look at articles like https://medium.com/simple-human/buttons-shouldnt-have-a-hand-cursor-b11e99ca374b and https://hiddedevries.nl/en/blog/2016-08-06-some-pointers-on-default-cursors or people who thought this through like https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/105024/why-dont-button-html-elements-have-a-css-cursor-pointer-by-default#105027 or necolas/normalize.css#371 (comment) and the UI guidelines from Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc.
Microsoft’s design guides talk about weak affordance:
Text and graphics links use a hand […] pointer […] because of their weak affordance. While links may have other visual clues to indicate that they are links (such as underlines and special placement), displaying the hand pointer on hover is the definitive indication of a link. To avoid confusion, it is imperative not to use the hand pointer for other purposes. For example, command buttons already have a strong affordance, so they don’t need a hand pointer. The hand pointer must mean “this target is a link” and nothing else.
Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines states that the hand cursor should be used when “the content is a URL link”.
W3C User Interface guidelines says the same thing again with “The cursor is a pointer that indicates a link”.

Source: https://db-ui.github.io/core/?p=viewall-elements-buttons

Has this been deliberately changed in DB UI Mono? What is the current status on whether a pointer cursor should be used on buttons or not?

I would be pleased if this is well documented if a decision is made against a pointer cursor on buttons. Many developers initially assume that the pointer cursor is desired because it is familiar from many websites. However, I also understand if this is a ‘copy-paste’ phenomenon.

Expected Behaviour

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