I think the problem with making it easy to apply for a job is that it encourages low effort applications, in essence a lot of people that don't meet the stated

I think the problem with making it easy to apply for a job is that it encourages low effort applications, in essence a lot of people that don't meet the stated requirements will apply thus inflating the totals. I used to have hiring responsibilities and I think the highest number of applications we got for a role was 57 and the company was completely unknown in a small city in the English midlands, so not exactly a tech hotstop. A lot of the applications were not suitable at all