And Safari on iPad doesn't care if a Must-Staple cert has no staple.
@patch-work Your same comments have been discussed at some length when the OCSP announcement was first made. The plain fact is that OCSP has been broken for a long time throughout the ecosystem. It has had many years to become useful but it just didn't happen. Swimming against that tide is hopeless.
The long-term way forward is very short-lived certs. LE resources freed from OCSP are better spent on that effort (which is currently in test to rollout generally later this year).
Please see the below threads. These are not the only discussions of OCSP just a couple I bookmarked. Search this forum for others.
This is a thorough look at the state and history of OCSP written Jan 2025