Dropdown Memes

Ah yes, the pinnacle of UX design—listing every possible phone number in a dropdown instead of using a simple text input. Because why let users type when they can enjoy the thrill of scrolling through thousands of options? Nothing says "we value your time" like forcing you to hunt for your number like it's a needle in a digital haystack. The developer probably thought: "Text fields are so 2005, let's make users earn their form submission." This is what happens when you ask the backend dev to handle the frontend for "just one quick task."