$ man ls
-L, --dereference
when showing file information for a symbolic link, show informa-
tion for the file the link references rather than for the link
itselfAh ah ah... so one can only see the first (no -L) or last (-L) of a e.g., long chain of symbolic links. Perhaps add a --symbolic-link-depth option to be able to see where an arbitrary depth of symbolic links points to. Or add a -L1, -L6, -L14 ... option.
