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Par for the course based on Uber's history. I stopped using them in lieu of a local/community app...which is honestly absolute garbage, but it is essentially completely pass-through and free for my local area restaurants to use.
I maintain that it would be relatively simple to create an open source version of an app/protocol like this that serves people's needs for this exact use case, and if it were designed for any community to use, it could be essentially free as you say and high quality, and be a single point of service for everyone.
If this were done right it could put all these thin platforms out of business and allow delivery drivers to establish fair terms for themselves.
This would be a really good fit for federation I think.
As a software engineer I'm down to help out on this, free of charge.
I'm a developer too, and I appreciate the offer very much, but I'm not really in a situation where I could work on something like this. It's just an idea though, anyone could run with it.