No seriously just before Covid about 2016/2017 there was a surge in people getting rid of their smartphones back to 'dumb phones'. https://www.bing.com/search?q=Why%20I%27m%20going%20back%20to%20a%20dumbphone&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&pq=why%20i%27m%20going%20back%20to%20a%20dumbphone&sc=0-33&sk=&cvid=645D78A2242A48B3BC3F78BD7EB72F7D
I think the elites didn't like that so they used COVID as an excuse to make it so you literally have to have a phone to do anything such as timed tickets to MOST museums,phone pickup only. A few of our museums don't require timed tickets however........
Just experienced in Corvallis escaping the ice storm once where a pizza place would not let us order without an app so we went to another one and they had no issue and were shocked when we told them how snobby the restaurant was. This place however was happy to serve us unlike the other place and delivered directly to our hotel room at Best Western. The first pizza place should've done that we were even willing to pay an extra fee if necessary.
Ironically a few locally owned museums such as the Evergreen Air Museum up at Mcminnville DOES NOT require timed anything. They have a system in place before Covid happened but it's like a secondary feature and they DON'T have one way arrows anywhere. Never did. Forgot to mention it's two large buildings the older (2003) air museum and the 2009 space museum + water park in a separate building. From the entrance it looks like the big slide goes up to some kind of airplane and the you slide out of it. If I were a kid I'd have felt like I died and been in heaven!