then your phone must be awful: because it has worked on everything I've tried (Android 2 on some awful HTC thing: Android 4? on a Galaxy G4 and various iOS versions; collectively the vast majority of the mobile browsing market).
If I can remember arguments against tapatalk (never used the thing since I use a grand total of two forums: SA has its own user-developed mobile app and PC has the mobile site): its that part of their way of making it free is by selling ads that go to them rather than running the ads that the forums themselves run. If you use that way to adapt to a mobile platform, then you lose revenue. Could be wrong, though!
Its not like not having a mobile app is a radical thing: reddit don't have an official one and just develop a standard mobile browser app. People have made their own apps that people use to access it in a more mobile-friendly way which (based on other people, I don't use reddit) seems to work well since the blame for it not working is not with reddit, but with the app developer.
I know how useful a good forum app could be: (
awful app is one of the most-used apps on my phone because of how good it is); but if the mods tried to do it themselves then they'd probably get a bunch of complaints about it "not working" as it was being developed by dumb people who know nothing about how programme development work: and you'd have to consider it when you wanted to make forum changes. It'd be another code base to maintain: and probably turn into an annoyance if it ever randomly broke when you added a subforum or something. The only way something like that would ever happen would be if it was crowd developed by forum users who were responsible for the thing breaking and didn't run ads on the thing to steal money from the admins of the site. I don't think that PC has the numbers to make something like that worthwhile: although I'd be happy to be proved wrong!