It's like a gambling addiction. All the apps have been designed and tweaked with user engagement metrics to ensure they are as addictive as possible and if the

It's like a gambling addiction. All the apps have been designed and tweaked with user engagement metrics to ensure they are as addictive as possible and if the app fails it will be forgotten as users engage more with another more addictive app. Essentially they are dopamine dispensers. Scroll, dopamine, scroll, dopamine. A bit like a slot machine don't you think?