I think a lot of the development of apps (and before that the web itself) was "me-tooism," but that doesn't necessarily make it stupid.
It's more a matter of getting on the bandwagon while things are still heating up, and figuring out how to make it work for you as you go.
"The web is going mobile; we need to be on mobile; the mobile world is a world of apps; therefore we need an app to stake out a presence in that space."
No part of the chain of reasoning is wrong or stupid in and of itself, but the product of thousands of actors following the same logic is chaos and waste. You could see it as a variation on the tragedy of the commons.
It's more a matter of getting on the bandwagon while things are still heating up, and figuring out how to make it work for you as you go.
"The web is going mobile; we need to be on mobile; the mobile world is a world of apps; therefore we need an app to stake out a presence in that space."
No part of the chain of reasoning is wrong or stupid in and of itself, but the product of thousands of actors following the same logic is chaos and waste. You could see it as a variation on the tragedy of the commons.