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As you said, STAR is arguably better in some ways but Approval being dead simple to explain to people and technically already supported by existing voting machines is worth a whole lot on its own as far as being a good voting system.
Try explaining STAR or Approval to someone who is only familiar with FPTP, see which one they understand more quickly.
Because "Vote for everyone you're OK with winning the office and it counts as a vote for any of them, whoever gets the most votes wins" or "It's just like what we've been doing, but you can pick more than one person and your vote counts for all of them" explains Approval voting.
As opposed to having to do a cumulative total across all ballots to figure out if your ballot counts as a vote at all, before figuring out whether your vote actually counts as a vote for someone you voted 5 for or someone you voted 2 for.
There is an argument for simplicity, but if we're going to change things, we might as well try for the experimentally best option.