i've drunk a fair amount of zero-alcohol beer, and the answer to your question is "yes", for reasons of flavour (alcohol changes this) and effect ("beer. it makes you drunk" - advertising slogan thought up by kingsley amis, i believe)

Non-alcoholic beer exists, is sold at bars, and is niche-popular. Obviously, most people go for the alcohol version.

It doesn't taste exactly the same though - but similar.

at least for me, depends. i don't like the way alcohol-free beer tastes -- it's just not the same.

sometimes i drink a nice whiskey because i love the taste (specially when paired with a nice cigar), but sometimes i drink to get tipsy because... well, it's fun for me.

it's like the difference between normal cake and cake infused with thc: i will eat cake for dessert, but sometimes, ingesting infused cake is more fun.

There are plenty of such 0% and drinks and they aren’t nearly as popular. People are after the effects, the taste is secondary.