Push notifications are also a terrible feature that I don’t want on any of my browsers including desktop Safari. I don’t want developers to even have the option to show me a prompt to enable them.
Terrible websites are no reason not to implement a feature on one platform but not another, just a reason to disable them by default. You can already do that in every decent browser, it'll ddeny access prompts without even bothering you. There's no reason to take the option away from everyone because a few people don't like it, that's what settings are for.
The service formerly known as RSS/Atom.
So, at the very least; someone was annoyed at “notifications”.
I disable all notifications for everything by default, I'll look at your software on my schedule and nobody else's.