Probably because you're a smug, combative asshole. The fuck is wrong with you?

No idea, HolyC is the only language we need.

The fact that you're able to think that is all I need to hear, you're officially beyond my power to help. Good luck, you're going to need it.

Is this a studied effort to miss my point, or are you just like this?

Infinity was originally a Reddit app that has been forked. This came up more than once:

"This is intended".

Maybe that's different now, but normal people don't pay attention to feature upgrades on open source projects that they don't use, and the fact that this was intended behavior led me to believe there was no particular reason it would ever change, especially since it still hadn't when I last used the app some time after the dev commented in the second screenshot.

It was like that because of a deliberate design choice that enjoyed widespread support

Too bad Infinity has that weird fixation on not marking posts as read persistently, it would be great if not for that.