They screwed up scrolling on iOS (Google loves to do this—gmail is also terrible), they screwed up sharing links, and a lot of sites (notably Reddit) had joke-t

They screwed up scrolling on iOS (Google loves to do this—gmail is also terrible), they screwed up sharing links, and a lot of sites (notably Reddit) had joke-tier implementations that seemed designed to annoy the user. And that's before we get into the obvious power grab that it was.