That's absolutely right, I'm not a developer, I'm a UX/UI designer. I recently had a contract where the contractor slaughtered my initial design to the point where I almost started to hate it, but I was bound by contract to finish it.
If reddit wants, their developer can absolutely build a top notch app.
Something that can help to onboard lemmy easier, there is a lemmy web app that’s incredibly similar to Apollo: https://vger.app/
Just send app to Home Screen via safari share button, it almost behave like a native app.