[mavu]

> It seems like most people don't actually like hamburger menus. So why do we, as developers, keep using them in our products and designs?

Oh my. what a great question. Simple answer: Because there are as many incompetent designers as there are incompetent managers, and we usually think "well, i guess he knows what he is doing" (yes. he. almost always)

Spoiler: He does not. And modern UIs are full of actively unusable widgets, confusing displays, bad readability and are in a general state of "the emperors new clothes".