How are you delineating websites and apps, and can you elaborate what exactly your hypothesis is here?

I presume they mean it's a website when you type it into an URL bar.

And that you don't ever add website bookmarks to the homescreen, because that makes them similar to apps.

I mean anything you have to "install" from an app store tied to a phone OS. Sometimes if there is no other option I install the app/complete the task and uninstall.

The app guys have normalized the idea that every "bright" idea they get about how to exploit my data or waste my attention, they have a right to push it out to my phone, if I have installed their app.

So the stupid apps keep updating with new shit everyday whether I need it or not.