Personally I don’t see these as the same. These attempts to prevent RE are mostly moot as the machine needs to interpret the code, so therefore it must be valid code and some of this either bloats the binary or decreases performance. The user pays for these inefficiencies (and are therefore user hostile) and in the case of battery powered devices incur additional costs through premature battery wear.

Snap is not usually something the user scrolls through all day (akin to FB/Insta infinite scroll); it's typically send a message or nude/recieve a message or nude and then backgrounded.

There is a rare case where people watch clickbait ads for hours but that's usually plugged in laying in bed with nothing better to do

I very much beg to differ. Spend some time around the younger generations and you’ll see that you will have a hard time getting them to look away long enough to realize you’re even there.

I am one of them - Snap is generally not a "browse forever nonstop" engagement tool that's typical and standard behaviour for TikTok/FB/IG, it's actually somewhat used as a messaging tool (not that it precludes an excessively high volume of messages and groupchats)

Well then I guess the others I see non stop using it must be figments of my imagination then and that somehow this all means obfuscation is now efficient. Also go search google, a 2 second search disproves you.