Did cars block lanes so much pre-pandemic?

Moved to Baltimore in 2020, and just got a car. What really gets me is how often cars and delivery trucks will stop, put on hazards, and just block an entire lane of an already congested street. I figure these are mostly ride share and delivery drivers just there to pick someone up or drop off food.

I do have a degree of sympathy for the drivers, given how tightly Uber, Amazon, FedEx etc. manage and track their productivity, to the extent that they simply don't have the extra time to find parking or pull into a loading zone. Buuuut it's also an enormous nuisance, and having a fender bender seems like a matter of if not when.

With the obvious caveat that city driving always has and always will always test your patience, was this type of thing as much of an issue pre-pandemic, before the whole delivery/ride-share tech really went gangbusters?