[jauntywundrkind]

They're not random websites though. They're apps that you have installed. And given permissions to.

The gatekeeping/FUD/wringing-of-pewrls over this seems absurd, cruel, and most of all arbitrary to me. Insubstantial naysaying.

[scarface_74]

I have never heard and end user say - “you know Electron apps are so great on the desktop, it would be really great if all apps on phones were PWAs.”

[int_19h]

PWAs don't have one of the major downsides of Electron, which is bloat - you don't have to package the huge runtime yourself.

That aside, sure, I'll always take a native app if I can have it. But providing native apps across all major desktop and mobile platforms is a lot of effort, especially for small businesses and hobbyists. In that case, a PWA is vastly better than nothing at all, or a native app for one particular platform that just happens to be the one you don't use.