One of my favorite bits of enshittening is how every fucking place on earth has its own app. If I stop on the road to buy a coffee at Ed's Coffee Shop and Art Studio or whatever the fuck, when I go to check out, they want me to pay with their app, download their app, etc.
FFS, I probably do business with several hundred companies/businesses over the course of the year. I have at least 5 fucking airline apps alone on my phone, because you pretty much HAVE to have an airline's app to get your boarding pass and such. Add every coffee and sandwich and dry cleaners and hardware store and grocery store and auto repair and clothing and barbershop and fucking everything else, and my phone would have 300 fucking apps on it.
Fuck that fucking shit. Let me come into your establishment. Let me pay money for your product, which you then give to me. Don't penalize me for not downloading your motherfucking app. Or if you're Schlotzky's, apparently....don't penalize me FOR downloading your motherfucking app.
Everyone on earth doesn't need an app.
Just like we don't need 98 different streaming services. We don't need monopolies, but we also don't need to make everything more complicated. If you used to be able to place an order at place X, and then pay money, and then receive what you ordered, that was literally two points of possible failure. Now, I have to do it online, where it requires me to enter all kinds of shit, my one-time code, etc. etc., introducing MULTIPLE points of failure so my order doesn't go through or some shit like that. Someone decided that introducing MORE points of failure was a great idea, and everyone ran with it.