If this design really isn't asshole design, then why are they still doing it like this? It's pretty obviously supposed to look like it has more content than it does rn; and even if you do realize what's going on, this makes it way harder to guess the amount of the contents. A number for gram amount is ok, but your brain really guesses by looking at the content, not the number.

I feel like that defeats the purpose of automated recommendations, since you can still search for the videos (that you want to watch) and create playlists either way.

I have not tried out voyager, but just from looking at it's GitHub, it's essentially just a web browser packed in a native app anyways.

Performance shouldn't really be different from browser app to local app this way unless something is done wrong, or there's some specific functionality, like async I/o that's still unsupported.

Notifications are also a thing in web browsers nowadays. Most device features that you can access in a separate app are actually supported by now.

Windows doesn't require you to install most things though. Developers just choose to do so unnecessarily sometimes.

Why hate windows for this of all things? Isn't it normal to "install" packages in Linux as well?

Bluetooth for example does work in web browsers though, and so does USB. There's web sockets and webrtc for communication. I can't think of a reasonable connection method that's inaccessible, but maybe I'm forgetting one.

I'd rather choose the password manager I trust that can safely store my credentials and auto-fill, than being forced to use a specific banking app with unknown security features.

I think it's pretty obviously the horse meat. A lot of people have problems with that.