[marcosdumay]

> Instead of waiting for the whole world to fix their websites, mobile browsers just shrank them a bit.

What comically never fixed anything. But yeah, that's the rationale.

AFAIK, mobile browsers only actually managed to display non-text sites when pinch-to-zoom was invented and the sites started to include the viewport meta. And they only managed to display text-only sites by reflowing the contents. The shrinking the viewport era was a deep local minimum of usability.