[rbx]

Would Google also be able to negatively influence such an app if the app was a PWA? Publishing PWA on Play Store might still lead to the same outcome, but what if it is just an independent PWA and is "installed" through the phone's browser? Of course you would loose some discoverability though, but are there other disadvantages? (provided the app is even feasible as a PWA)

[suprfsat]

They could make Chrome experience deliberately bad, if you believe they're not doing that currently.

[rbx]

Well, personally I use Firefox. Although I do have a suspition that Google has found some way of keeping Firefox experience on mobile inferior in some way. Just speculating.

[depressedpanda]

I don't really want to defend Google here, but the best PWA experience for both Android and desktop is actually with Chrome.