Yep I’m with you.

It’s so easy to use https with secure encryption. It’s the default. You have to go out of your way to use s symmetric key or to even allow http without SSL in xcode or Android studio.

Yep it also prevents anyone in the airport impersonating the WiFi and the bytedance server (which is trivial) and crafting payloads that run insecure code on your phone ( not that easy but there’s heaps of CVEs like this in apps like Safari over the years, so there’s at least 2x as many in an app like this)