Why is options.events not available on e.g. linkify-string

[tafelnl]

In the docs it's mentioned that options.events is available on

element, jquery interfaces only

Why is it not available on linkify-string for example. I think I have a valid use-case where this might be needed:

I have plain text input (simple chat messages), of which all but one type of urls should be transformed according to the default settings. For one specific url however, I do want a href set, but I also want to set an event listener, so I can decide for that specfic URL what to do exactly on clicking it. More specific, for example, I want to actually call vue.$router.push() when clicking this a.href element, so I can mimick the behaviour of a <router-link> element.

Is this at all possible with the current API?