You personally may not enjoy skipping the technical phone screens but that doesn't make it suboptimal for most people. If that were true, we'd see no demand for

You personally may not enjoy skipping the technical phone screens but that doesn't make it suboptimal for most people. If that were true, we'd see no demand for applying through Triplebyte versus applying to companies directly. Empirically, that doesn't seem to be the case, most candidates prefer to not repeat phone screens across multiple companies when job searching.