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Tons of people use youtube to listen to music even though there's dedicated music apps.

I do that too, like a radio, but I recognise that music is far more "contentful" (for lack of a better word) than white noise variants, the latter of which can easily be generated locally on-demand for as long as you want.

For reference: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwBEqV9OBTe/

> I don't have an answer, but I'm fine with not understanding. Let people have things for their own reasons.

This way of thinking creates things such as Electron.

The thing that powers one of the most popular work chat apps and one of the most popular code editors?

The thing that reduces context switching for developers? The thing that has increased the number of apps that would have been websites during the dark times?