Something that surprises me about all these cases we've seen in the last couple of weeks is that most of the users were using Electrum wallet. Why is this something worth noting? I've done an anonimous search on chrome incognito (I'm going to assume that this users use chrome....) and electrum doesn't show up for "bitcoin wallet" results. In fact, the first result I see is from bitcoin.org on how to choose your wallet!
I only focus on one wallet, in this case Electrum, but some users also buy
fake coin and then send it to BTC address on some online wallet or exchange. Then they ask support about that problem, and in most cases any support will say "sorry we can not recover your coins". In case of Electrum there is no official support, so most people find this forum as a possible source of information, since we have a dedicated Electrum board.
I tried to do an experiment, I searched by keyword "free bitcoin wallet" and it showed me bitcoin.org as the first search result (Firefox+uBlock). On that site I click on
Introduction -> Getting-Started -> Choose-Your-Wallet -> Windows -> New -> and based on what you click in next few steps (coin control, 2FA) you will get Electrum as main or only choice.
This is a possible answer to your question, but you should also consider that Electrum is an extremely popular crypto wallet for two reasons, it is free and does not require downloading the entire blockchain.