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Ahh. Wasn't aware of that. I found a screenshot, and it's an odd, non-obvious way to allow tipping:

I wonder how much that keeps it from being used.

That's actually not what the tipping screen looks like now. Here's what it's looked like since 2014 http://thehub.lyft.com/blog/2014/10/13/revamped-pay-screen