dashboard pinning a report vs pinning a visualization

1. I would like to pin a card visualization from a report into a dashboard. If I understand correctly in such case, I wont get a live connection. Is it possible to set a live connection when only a visualization from a report is pinned?
2. To work around that I created a report with just that card visualization and pinned it to the dashboard.
   1. But then for that card I dont get font size more than 30. So my text is relatively small.
   2. Other problem is that in such case, users cannot click anywhere on the pinned tile to open the report. Users have to click 3 dots in right top and click on "go to report".
   3. Moreover, we cannot set a custom link to another report and make a report open in a new page. 

Could anyone confirm above and suggest a work around?