[nicoburns]

> There's less to learn to get going

There are thousands of pre-existing web developers for whom this is not true because they've already put the effort in to learn the web platform. For these people, PWAs represent significant new functionality which they can now use without having to learn a whole new toolkit.

You may be dramatically underestimating just how many web developers there are.

> I also think it's a lot harder to reason about security with a web app.

I'm not sure that's true, because the web runtime itself tends to provide quite good security (partly because it doesn't allow access to a lot of device APIs in the first place). Native apps are often granted quite wide permissions, and auto-update by default too.