New to Houston. What’s with Beltway 8 south ramp to 59 South

Was traveling to sugar land last week to pick up a package around 4pm. I got on the ramp from beltway 8 south onto the 59 that leads to Sugar Land.

I got in the right lane and noticed a ton of cars racing in the left lane on the ramp, I was assuming they needed to head the other way (East) but then noticed there are two lanes from beltway 8 south that goes to 59. And they were battling their way into the front of everyone.

Who was the genius who decided to make the two lanes merge into 1 on the ramp? the ramp doesn’t require an immediate merge onto 59. Had to wait 20 minutes so everyone could blast past me to cut in line.

Anyways yesterday I attempted to go to sugar land and it was worse, the backup was creating heavy traffic on beltway 8 due to the amount of people trying to merge into one lane, although there being no traffic on 59 itself.

Does this ramp purposely create a traffic break on that ramp? Or is it moronic engineering?