sure you can just book hotels if you expect that experience. I don't understand 'airbnb should exactly be like a hotel' expectation.

It shouldn’t be worse

why not ?

Airbnb is a different thing; it will be better in some ways and worse in others.

How is AirBnb in anyway better?

I frequently (multiple times per year) rent AirBnBs for the full kitchen and many bedrooms for group meetings where we live, work, and cook meals together.

That’s hard/impossible to find in hotels.

It’s a suite? Usually expensive in a hotel, but definitely exists.

I've never seen an 8 bedroom 6+ bathroom suite with a full kitchen. I've only looked in a half-dozen cities or so where I've wanted to hold these team events, but I've never seen one.

Often in AirBnB you can find a stand alone house. In a hotel generally you have a hallway with rooms, one of those rooms is yours, and all the other rooms belong to other people.

The stand alone house can have a yard or a distance to the next house.

Sometimes you can find AirBnb right near a place you need to be in the next morning whereas a hotel might need to be a long ways away and travel between the locations can be problematic.

airbnbs are cheaper if you don't mind sharing the bathroom with other guests/host and cook all your meals in host's kitchen. This has saved me a ton of money traveling over the years.

I can rent a weekend in a tiny cabin on a working farm and drink the milk I milked myself while learning how to milk a cow.

In recent years, I don't even bother using an app or going to the front desk. Assuming I've stayed for my entire reservation, I just leave. Never had a problem so far!

Soon after I click the button, my receipt gets emailed. Before late last year, I was traveling more for work than personal.