After I took an ADHD examination, I was turning my results in to the receptionist. I said “I think I did pretty good, yeah?” and they replied “you and your doctor will have a lot to talk about”.

Ah… I see…

Humans are weird and UX wants the web app to behave how humans expect it to behave. That’s how we got here. There’s a whole host of reasons why manipulating browser history is awful, but here we are.