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I really need to shut up about this, but can't help myself. Who the hell brainwashed society into using percentages on delivery? For a restaurant there is at least a rough correlation between the work done by the server, the time they've spent tending to you, and the cost of the meal. Tipping falls apart under any kind of logical analysis, but there's like at least a little bit of sense in using a percentage here. If I order a $10 burger that you drop off on my porch should I pay you 10x more if you drop off a $100 steak? If you answered yes, please just get fucked.
I drove for a decade before the apps and this is exactly how it worked. Tipping expectation was proportional to distance and most people understood this. If the order was big enough to require multiple trips to the car (basically a catering order or like 20+ pizzas) we'd expect another $5 or so.
I agree with you but I believe I have an answer. The implication is, if you can afford to buy the $100 steak, you can afford to tip more. And if you can't afford to tip more, you shouldn't but the steak.
Which is horrible, and dumb, and tipping is garbage. But that's where that comes from.