I don’t think you can style your visited links to change to something on hover specifically (you may change visited links colour but not what happens on hover).
It’s not the fact that they are visited links, just that on hover they don’t change to the specified “hover link” style
I don’t want the visited links to do anything different to an unvisited link
Well, they just have their own colour. And you cannot make that specific colour to change on hover just like you can make your regular links change colour on hover.
Ok, but does the hover or focus state change once a link has been visited? I assume that it makes no difference whether a link has been visited or not, the hover and focus states are the same. This is not what’s happening
edit: Actually if you give your link some other colour but default for visited links then they will respect the hover! Just tried myself after realizing I am not 100% sure how that works