I like to use my iPhone to read text articles. It's amazing to me how bad it's become at this task.

I get various emails with curated links to various stories, and I will click a link to go read that story. First, it often takes me to a browser re-direct that sometimes successfully redirects, sometimes doesn't. Then sometimes the redirect is to an app that I've subscribed to. Which would be great. Except for the times it opens the app but fails to redirect to the specific article. Then if the article is on a web page, it commonly fills the page with more and more ads slowing down my phone and giving me a tiny keyhole opening to read the text through.

Then I often want to go back to the email and pick up where I left off. Which works >50% of the time, but fairly often will skip to a different email.

I truly believe that for reading news and articles the state of software was much better 10 years ago than today.