In the web UI, OSM can’t be zoomed in far enough to see the names of POIs in reasonably dense areas. I can get around this by going into edit mode, and mobile apps don’t have this restriction. But the out-of-the-box experience, for non-insiders just using the web site, doesn’t reveal all that OSM has to offer.
Does anyone know what the rationale for this is?
The real answer you wanna hear is:
Soon no more! As they will move from pixel based tiles to vector based rendering which will massively speed up load times and allow any zoomlevel you want.
https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2024/02/11/2024-announcing-the-year-of-the-openstreetmap-vector-maps/