From my perspective it’s a place where things collect so I know if there’s a reason to open an app. I don’t bounce in and out of apps or check things at all unless there’s a notification.
I leave my phone on silent at all times so when I do look at it I check the notification area, but not all the different things that might put a notification in there.
Also I disable notifications for most things that would spam me.
Mich like in the opening scene of idiocracy: https://youtu.be/Rp1HUcFvJh4
Perhaps anti vaccination groups are just the natural population control trigger to counterbalance the described effect?
But to me it’s extra funny because anti vaccination groups happen to closely align with religion most of the time. And they can’t see the benefits of mass vaccination so it must not be real, but in almost the same sentence they want you to believe in sky daddy without being able to see him.
That’s the trick, it’s actually about advertising to increase the total NASA budget so that they can actually get some space travel done