Facts are not arguments. People do what they need to achieve their goals.
The same rationale you're using could be used to defend edits, markdown, bbcode syntax, whatever. As long as enough clients support these things people will start doing them, then you can start claiming it's not realistic to remove support.
fiatjaf /
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2025-05-18 16:41:29
in reply to nevent1q…ta3t
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