Creating a "dumb" item was discussed and rejected.

I don't see how passing the subkey is an issue if it works. The name of the verb is considered public API surface, so we can't easily change it anyway.

What may be the issue is the use of "%L", which I recall being told I should use at some point but I don't remember the exact reason. It may be that links are not resolved for %L while using another character (I don't believe %1 is necessarily correct here either, but maybe with %* it's redundant anyway).