Yes, no need to use them but there is a need to serve them since a significant portion of stackers use iOS (unless we want to tell them to get fucked):

Apple does not seem to care about how utterly broken their web push implementation in WebKit is¹ and we have written enough code to try to workaround their undocumented bugs (which they flag as "missing support") with minimal success.

After they announced they would pull PWAs from Europe (which they can't even call PWAs, they call them home screen apps and push notifications remote notifications because they are so special), I felt defeated and looked into Safari push notifications even though it hurts my soul. @k00b even paid for an iPhone for debugging a while ago.²

Turns out you need an Apple developer license for Safari push notifications which costs $99/year (it's not about the money, it's about the message) and I had AppleID login issues again. It wasn't working in Brave, I had to use Safari on iOS to login and try to enroll.

Then, they wanted not only my money but also my data (ID verification). After I uploaded the required photos, there was another error which simply said that something is wrong with my account and I should contact their support with a link to some generic support site. What a way to tell me to get fucked.

I guess Apple hates me as much as I hate them.