@atomicpoet it's not the programmers fault. They had no choice. I was one of them.

In the early naughties we tried developing systems that connected on other ports and spoke different protocols.

But our corporate users could not use them. They were on networks locked down by paranoid security engineers.

Only port 80 was allowed. Or port 443.

So we had to rewire it to fit where corporate security firewalls allowed.

And thus, paranoid security engineers forced everyone to make everything look like web traffic. Which of course makes the whole system less secure.