I think part of the problem is that the "small internet" isn't a concretely definable thing in the same way that "Gemini space" is. Gemini browsers are meant to browse Gemini space and the expectations and limitations of that are known ahead of time.

Meanwhile, this app is meant for browsing an unknown, undefined limited subset of the plain old HTTP web; and when you step out of that sandbox (and you most definitely will inadvertently do so) what you are left with is a broken experience. A web browser that goes out of its way to not support foundational basics is just a shitty web browser given that my normal web browser can hit the same sites.