While that might be true, people have many different tastes and there’s lots of fetish content on this site. What might be appealing to one person could severely disturbing to another. It’s best not to flash people (in my opinion) with a ton of expanded NSFW images if they do not want to expand them. Back when we had things auto expand and unblurred, I personally saw some things that I was not personally ready for. Not like they outright disturbed me or anything, but they were just more than I was bargaining for in that very moment.
And having no NSFW shown at all unless you make an account makes the site seem like it’s way less active than it is. We’ve actually noticed a few new faces show up since we implemented the patch, I don’t exactly know if it’s due to the patch or not, but it’s definitely noticeable.
We tried an app called Boost and didn’t have any issues. And it’d be very difficult for us to make sure the site (which we are prioritizing the desktop experience for) worked on all the apps. Since they all might have their own little quirks as to how they grab/display content.