[lelanthran]

> A knee-jerk answer is often "performance", but honestly, most web apps load faster than their native counterparts these days.

This is so off-the-mark I am skeptical of the rest of the claims in this list.

[Spivak]

The MS Word webpage absolutely loads faster than MS word. Same with Outlook. Microsoft is even about to cheat https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/01/microsoft_will_preloa... and preload their apps to fake faster load times.