Why were matchsticks invented if lighters predated it?

>>1539169
Matchsticks were/are cheaper and disposable.
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the flint striker of a flintlock musket was hefty and unreliable, other mechanisms were expensive and complicated and needed something to produce the hydrogen gas

before compressed gas and ferrocerium, the match coating ignited by a small amount of friction was cheaper

>>1539185
>>1539195
Were lighters back then as reliable as now?
I'm guessing that old lighters were something like our Zippos now and matchsticks are a bit useless when they are already wet.