Namespaces / hierarchy: shortcut to parent?

So by “indented linked references” you mean something like this (using OP example)?

- [[Desktop]]
    - [[Scripting]]

This wouldn’t be equivalent to the features a namespace has, right? Searching for [[Desktop]] will give me above parent block. But I would need to figure out manually, [[Scripting]] is a child page (by looking at the result) and start another search. [[Desktop]] would automatically provide all results for [[Desktop/Scripting]], now being a namespace.