Filter nav menu items HTML tags and wrap inner text with span

Just use link_before in your wp_nav_menu $args and add opening/closing span tags:

$args = [
    'link_before' => '<span>',
    /* Add closing </span> to link_after */
    'link_after' => '</span><svg>...</svg>',

    // Other args
];

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