I’m not very good at creating shortcuts. Could you share a screenshot of how you have it setup or share the shortcut?
That will certainly work, but more often than not, I want to respond to that email, not merely reference it. I have no experience with programming, so this must be harder than I realize, particularly at Apple’s scale, but one would think creating permalinks should be table stakes. 
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I suspect it’s because Apple Mail has to support mail from so many different sources and protocols. If all Apple Mail was handled on iCloud it would be a lot easier. But they have to handle gmail, hundreds of ISPs, etc.
That makes sense. Thanks!
FWIW, the drag and drop method still worked when I created a Reminder linked to an email in Gmail, then moved that email to my iCloud account.
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That is good to know. I need to retrain my muscle memory! 
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Sorry, had forgottent the iPad thing and my use case is different anyway. I am mostly looking to link an actual file emailed to me (like a bill) to be reminded about or to have as a reference. My solution is Mac only in that it has Hazel (after the file has been stripped out of the email) do the heavy lifting and a shortcut to provide the link to Reminders. I do have a soluion which provides robust links from mail to a new reminder, but that involves Apple Script that i got from somewhere. It creates the link and archives the email, all with one flick of a Keyboard Maestro script/ I have also used Hookmark with some success - again Mac only, and I think Sindre Sorhus’ Supercharge offers a solution, but again Mac only. I agree this should be native to Mail, I like to triage email using my iPad, but this lack of links to reminders makes it difficult.
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I will say that OmniFocus and Things solves this particular problem because you can cc, bcc, or forward an email to OF or Things and you have a permalink. It is the permalink feature that keeps tempting me back to OF. 
I used to do something similar with Todoist, and even had mail rules setup when an email of a certain type or with certain keywords which identified it as a task, automatically forwarded the email to Todoist and archived the mail. The problem is email apps seem to want to keep us in email, whereas we mostly want desperately to get out of email and in to a task manager (Snooze an email! Remind me Later etc. etc.) I really only want my tasks in one place, and looking at a stuffed email inbox with old emails popping up again gives me hives.
Oh wow you’re right, the link in Things works on Mac, iPhone and iPad. Strange that this works, but not Apple’s own Reminders!
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It’s baffling. 
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I’m with you. I want my tasks in my task manager app, not in my email program.
This question/problem comes up every year or two. And, AFAIK, the features everyone wants is probably limited to tools offered by Google and Microsoft.
I use Google, and every item, service, and document in Google Workspace possesses a unique URL which allows the apps to work together.
Google Tasks is a relatively simple app, but it “just works” on all my devices.
