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Why would a web client be polished for the one platform that has absolutely no need for it?

On iOS, it redirects to the native iTunes App. Even if you somehow manage to overcome that, its presence clearly indicates that iOS isn’t a supported target - at which point, assuming it’s intentionally broken as you describe for non-beta reasons (this is not necessarily true), using that CSS would potentially be wasteful and break non-iOS users!

> its presence clearly indicates that iOS isn’t a supported target.

They added an "open in music" button to the hamburger menu, assumed only on iOS. So they obviously did something for iOS users.

Also agreed that this is pretty silly, people will of course just use the native app.

On my iOS device, the link takes me to the Music app. I have to go back to Safari to see the web interface.

That said, I don't see the overflow (iPhone XS).

Overflow scrolling CSS is deprecated in iOS 13. All scrollable elements now get it by default.

This is true! Was going to mention that, but opted for more snark.