Everyone in the comments is talking about websites, but TFA is talking about the iOS Bumble app where it's trivial to unintentionally create unselectable text. e.g. SwiftUI Text components are unselectable by default.
Also, in an iOS app, it's common to decide that interacting with some text should do something like navigate.
IIRC tapping a comment in iOS Apollo (defunct Reddit client) would collapse the comment. If you wanted to make a text selection, the Apollo app developer created a specific text-selection-mode for that. That's how anti-user the norms are on native apps compared to the web.
Often, disabling selection on the web comes from trying to port native app norms to a web app.
Everyone in the comments is talking about websites, but TFA is talking about the iOS Bumble app where it's trivial to unintentionally create unselectable text. e.g. SwiftUI Text components are unselectable by default.
Also, in an iOS app, it's common to decide that interacting with some text should do something like navigate.
IIRC tapping a comment in iOS Apollo (defunct Reddit client) would collapse the comment. If you wanted to make a text selection, the Apollo app developer created a specific text-selection-mode for that. That's how anti-user the norms are on native apps compared to the web.
Often, disabling selection on the web comes from trying to port native app norms to a web app.