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This is all fallout from the Last Eternal September (iPhone launch 2007).

Before the iPhone you only used the internet because you had an immediate need or because you were a terminally online nerd. The iPhone forced an always on connection into people's pockets, people who had no idea what to do with it. After a very short period of time predatory assholes figured out that they could turn this always on connection into a money mill by releasing apps that rely on remote servers to provide services that COULD be run locally or on a traditional webpage (and collect user data).

It's been 18 years of businesses training non-technical users (>90% of users) to always use their app over a website. In many cases they will actively punish users for trying to use the website over the app (Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Imgur) by adding barriers or removing functionality.

People are idiots, it is too late for >90% of them to learn. The other 10% are either raging against this insanity or actively developing the software to make it worse.