How to make Kate show path to symbolic link instead of the target file?

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I have a local directory with symbolic links to files in other directories, where all the files are named text.txt, as follows:

/u/username/workdir/filename.ext → /very_long_path … /filename#2eext/text.txt

I use the symbolic links to conveniently access those files from my work directory, where I can give them useful filenames and avoid the very long paths to remote places in the filesystem.

When I edit file “filename.ext” in Kate, it shows as the target file, e.g. “/very_long_path … /filename#2eext/text.txt”. This is highly inconvenient, as the whole point of the symbolic link is to show the local path with a useful filename. In contrast, gedit or gvim show the path to the link, e.g. “/u/username/workdir/filename.ext”. Is there any way I can make Kate show the path to the symbolic link, as opposed to the target of that link, as the other editors do?

FYI, this behavior of Kate just appeared when the sysadmins switched us from CentOS 7 to RHEL8. In CentOS7 it showed the path and filename of the link instead of the target like all the other editors. It is Kate version 22.04.1 on RHEL8. Thanks for any help.

Edit: The version of Kate that worked correctly on CentOS7 is:
Qt: 4.8.7
KDE Development Platform: 4.14.8
Kate: 3.14.8

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There is an alternative to symbolic links for very long path names: a bind mount. I have used such to solve similar problems, but there can be affects on some utilities.

mount --bind needs sudo, but one can use the bindfs utility to make a fusermount.