What is the purpose of The Match?

Why don't residency applications function like most other application processes in existence including med school apps - you apply, interview, then get told if you are accepted/waitlisted and choose from the places you were accepted to?

It seems like it would be much simpler to interview at a top choice then if a student gets in they can relax and cancel their other interviews, instead of wasting thousands of dollars and spending several extra months with anxiety about where the lottery...

What is the purpose of The Match?

What is the purpose of The Match?