I agree. But I also haven't meet anyone IRL who curates their notifications. In fact most people don't seem to give a shit what apps they install and their notification bar usually has 3000 alerts pending.
It's had the opposite effect for me, in the past when I'd catch myself doom scrolling I had only pulled the phone out to make sure I hadn't missed a message and then just didn't put it back down.
Now I'll just glance at the watch and see if it's important or not.
LinkedIn is garbage. I was trying to do some things on mobile. Nope. Gotta download the app. Switch to desktop mode, okay now you can do the thing.
I loathe companies that force their app by making an almost unusable mobile experience. If I didn't use LinkedIn to keep up with networks professionally, I wouldn't be using it.
It's far easier to control your experience, harvest your date, and feed you ads on an app.
Also keep in mind that on Android, apps will opt to use Webview, which Google has said they're injecting their web environment integrity bullshit into.
I'm an android developer, so I fully understand what you're saying which is why I absolutely refuse to use any app that I don't absolutely need. If it's simple enough, I'll just make my own app, haha.
For years I didn't know LinkedIn was considered a real website. I thought it was just a spam factory and all the profiles on the site were either fake or generated from barely ever correct scraped info. Like those celebrity info sites that appear on Google but for business people. But no, somehow behind it all there's an actual company that the government knows about.