Not exactly related to your point about the user agent giving all kinds of arguably unnecessary information, but there's an interesting write-up about why the c

Not exactly related to your point about the user agent giving all kinds of arguably unnecessary information, but there's an interesting write-up about why the core user agent is the mess it is for those who've not seen it already. https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/ https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/