Not like we remember them picking us up anyways. Well I seem to forget

I agree, Des Moines has suffered because of it. Have reached out to Uber's Iowa office with no response.

If there are constant surges, prices might not even be lower on average, just more opaque and unpredictable. Weird move for them

Exactly

here, they dropped them so they could say their prices are cheaper than taxis in their marketing … even if surge prices mean you'll never pay that low