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Originally Posted by Quoth
What I mean is that if SendToKindle/Whispersync/Kindle Unlimited/Prime or Kindle App is the main thing, then sideloading is unlikely to be ever needed for almost everyone.
If you sideload all your ebooks, even ones bought on Amazon (which doesn't need DRM removed if same Kindle as in downloads) what do you need the Kindle WiFi for? It will mess up covers, collections, gratuitously upgrade firmware or switch settings in firmware and potentially accidentally remove ebooks. You've agreed the browser/wiki is abysmal.
There are of course edge cases such as news feeds via Calibre as these only work properly in mobi format and no longer work on Send to Kindle, and possibly people that have private documents and care about privacy, or those work on kindle eink, but not via Send to Kindle. Actually, none of the people I know still using Kindles side load at all. Others have switched to Kobo, so have to sideload ebooks bought on Amazon.
That's almost no app users, who are the majority, and few Kindle eink users.
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You seem to be projecting your preferences. Maybe people like to mix and match? Buy some books from other stores, but also use Amazon at other times, like library books, samples, pocket, ...
I think your "edge cases" may be larger then you think.