It's also worth noting that these dictators don't appear out of thin air. They come from somewhere else when they see an opportunity. The Web was successful be

It's also worth noting that these dictators don't appear out of thin air. They come from somewhere else when they see an opportunity. The Web was successful because it was decentralized and egalitarian. Anyone could run a server. You could access any site you wanted. Everybody could link to everybody else. People loved this and the Web spread for these reasons. Modern app ecosystems spread because capital wanted a return. It noticed people were getting rich off of this tech thing, and all that money from the rest of the world came pouring in. The defining feature is control: of experience, sharing, attention, and revenue. Because controlling all these things allows capital to extract greater returns. There are pros and cons to each model, but let's be clear, one was built from the ground up by financiers looking to make another buck. If it's easier to build a bottom nav bar or something, that's incidental to their plans. Why do you want a bottom nav bar, anyway? If you're truly building for the users, the first lesson is that they want their information on their terms.