[no1lives4ever]

Uber used to have a much simpler app 6-7 years ago. I worked on a product that copied uber and gave whitelabelled uber like apps to taxi operators and other services that required similar functionality.

But even then, we found that the app was hiding a lot of complexity under that simple interface. The uber app of 2022 shows a UI that is a least 10x as complex and hides even more behind that interface.

Something as simple as how uber is able to show you car location in near real time on the screen requires a fair bit of engineering effort to get right at Uber's level of scale.