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TikTok has controls now actually.
There's a scrollbar, playback speed, PIP mode, zoom, captions, and you can remove the Like, Comment, Share buttons as well (they call it Clear Display mode). Videos with different aspect ratios can also be put in landscape mode for better viewing.
Hopefully that means all the trend chasers trying to copy tiktok will copy that too.
Now? They've had controls for nearly 2 years at least.