[Hamuko]

youtube-dl for example is distributed as a zipapp and it seems to be distributed just fine. It only requires you to have Python installed on your system, which isn't too burdensome of a requirement on macOS/Linux. On Windows they do actually distribute a Python interpreter.

[mmm_grayons]

Youtube-dl is a great tool, but the audience (primarily technical people) of any CLI app won't be representative of shipping an app for general use.

[airstrike]

GP's point was not about "general use" apps, but apps for other developers / system maintainers