Damn near impossible to roll back a primary feature that you popularized. 😂 Everyone would totally freak out, especially as they would keep generating ratings and sorting and etc. and everyone would be creeped out. Lots of apps get stuck with emotional technical debt, like that.

Yup, exactly why 80% percent of the time copying Big Tech UI/UX isn't a graat idea. We have a chance to do something new here, where the user has to perform and understand way less actions. Big tech can only dream of letting their users reply on, zap and share literally everything, so they invented a bunch of proxy features. They had to make these features look and feel like lottery machines because otherwise no one would even use them. We don't have that problem. If you do, you're designing it wrong. Replying, sharing and zapping are examples of some if the most natural UX you can find.