Again, no one really cares about getting their problems solved. There is a FAR bigger market in meeting needs. Instragram is more about meeting the need of people finding a community and giving them tools to do that.

The kind of life that ya'll are espousing, this I hole myself in the ground, I run the cheapest shit I can buy, to use low-quality apps that don't let me have any fun, to most people, is actually a very boring way to use the internet and computers in general, and something no one is willing to pay for, hence why no one but those weird few that use computers this way, and the occasional post talking about how they spent all day setting up their mail servers because data privacy ya'll that no one gives a damn about.

You do realize that this doesn't help your point in the slightest, right?

It's been solved countless times, and yet Instagram is indescribably more popular than the other options.

In other words, it really doesn't matter if some dev can throw it together in a couple hours because of HTML/JS. What matters is the polish, followed by the users. Notice none of that includes "make it easy for the developer".

How does unpolished turd which does not even provide polished turd solve anything?