Uber is a long con disguised as an "app", to monopolise and enshittify the taxi industry, exploiting drivers and ripping off customers. This was obvious to me from day 1. I've never used Uber (willingly) and I never will.
The Chinese equivalent, Didi, makes it just as easy to hail a real taxi as a private car. Regulating to make Uber and its imitators do this in their apps is the MVR (Minimal Viable Regulation) anywhere they start to operate.