[katdork]

It's deeply insecure in most of the ways it is used.

[gzread]

But people don't care about security, that is obvious, they only care about UX

[simon666]

"only" is probably too strong here. But certainly UI/UX gets more weight in the decision making. Nevertheless, people often do things simply because other people are doing them (fad, fashion, in-group signalling) so just showing that enough people of the right stripe are doing it is often enough for a switch---I'm setting aside cases of making a switch then switching back.