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Backwards compatibility, as always.

I agree! At the very least, maybe web desoign and development based on/dependent upon user strings dies off...or if they're going to keep the cruft at least make it a little tidier and/or contain more truthiness[0]!!

[0] = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness

Some are actively reducing it: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/privacy-sandbox/user-agent...

I was hoping that we'd eventually reach the point where the entire decimal representation of pi was written in the User Agent string...