You can on the desktop website, I do it all the time. Although in general I've stopped buying a lot of stuff on there since it seems like everything now costs 5x as much as it used to, you seem to pay for shipping on everything, and the ability to search for things is way, way down (it's actually better than it used to be, but still terrible compared with 6-7 years ago).

I find it hard to believe that all but a very, very narrow segment of society can't go 3 or 4 days without tracking a package?

Geeze! Going to the AliExpress app to check a package is for when you remember that you ordered something over a month ago and are wondering if it'll arrive soon. Not for regular checking!

Then you look and see it made it to your country last week and give a gentle nod to the app, then close it. Because you know, "any day now, I'll have 1000 of that $0.01 thing."

AliExpress tells you the tracking number and the courier on the order page. I just tracked a package yesterday without touching the app.

I mean, you don't really need to track the package usually, it'll get there when it gets there like in the good old days.