What was worse was their mouse platform wasn't level. So every time they let go, it would drift downwards and they'd have to go through the "where's my mouse pointer" wiggle again.
The way the whole industry adopted it is understandable given the install base, but it's also probably a trillion dollar tax. I'd hate to see how much additional energy is used by billions of end-user devices running a rendering layer that is 100X heavier and more CPU intensive than anything native or TUI.
There should be public browsers and public search engines. The private incentives are too much and software built for public needs can be extremely cheaper than their private counterparts once you remove the need to support advertising services.
They're wannabe window managers.