[maratd]

Time = $$$. Universal constant. While your desktop app may be shinier, it takes much more time to create and maintain. This means fewer apps are published and fewer features are added.

Less choices and fewer features translate to a negative for the user.

On top of that, native desktop apps are compiled ... the web is open, with html/css/javascript/etc. and this creates an open environment that encourages free software.

Free is always good for the user.

Anyway, re-arguing this sort of thing is pointless. The desktop is in a death spiral. All this stuff has already been set in stone. It's a question of when, not if.