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What country are you from?
We don't get glasses in the US, we get barely laminated paper cups, or plastic cups in the rare occasion the restaurant doesn't have a disposable plastic mandate. The mouths of said cups are far too wide to reasonably drink out of without straws, and without the lid the cups are far too structurally unstable to drink out of without at least some spillage or awkward handling.
They're designed for straw based drinking, and changing that would require an entirely different vessel.
I'm not from the US, but know about the kind of cups you're talking about. They're common everywhere at fast food, and other restaurants selling food to go.
They're indeed designed for using a straw. When having lunch outside I typical bring a water bottle. Then buy food without drink, or refill if there's a dispenser. It helps avoid unhealthy sodas, and avoid the cup and straw altogether.