Safari for iOS - Any way to always request the desktop site

My iPad Pro screen is larger than my laptop, yet I still get the “phone” version of many web sites. It’s a pain to always have to hold down the refresh icon and wait for “Request Desktop Site” to pop up. Why doesn’t Apple provide a setting to “always request desktop site”? ...or at least support a feature to mimic the user agent string of another device like every other browser does.

Does anyone know of a way to do this?

Thanks!