Exposing \@kernel@refstepcounter via a starred variant of \refstepcounter

[Udi-Fogiel]

Brief outline of the enhancement

LaTeX2e generally cannot add new features without an extreme amount of care to accommodate backwards compatibility. Please do not be offended if your request is closed for being infeasible.

It would be nice to have a starred variant to \refstepcounter which does not creates pdf destinations, similar to the starred variant of \ref. hyperref provides \LinkTargetOff and one can assign different code to the target socket, but these are roundabout ways to do that instead of just not using the socket.

[u-fischer]

I would love to have a \refstepcounter*. It is a very logical public name for \@kernel@refstepcounter. The problem is that it is incompatible with the cleveref package. It would require a new round of more or less complicated firstaid fixes, so no promise that this will happen fast.