To be fair, the only reason they exist in otherwise minimalist apps is because they need to be there for crawlability. A hamburger menu that isn't visible until

To be fair, the only reason they exist in otherwise minimalist apps is because they need to be there for crawlability. A hamburger menu that isn't visible until someone clicks on it is an SEO problem that is (sadly) easily mitigated with a footer, which has bled into the problem of the big footer, wherein people hamfistedly use the footer to solve the entirety of their crosslinking strategies, which (at least for me, but maybe I'm the weirdo) makes it impossible to scroll to the bottom of the page to get to the meat of it without having to usually scroll almost all the way back up.