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That’s a fair question but I can think of one big advantage of going this way and that’s to do with distraction-free workspaces.

To use a comparison, have you ever picked up your phone to enter an TOTP / one time auth code and then accidentally found yourself texting a friend, or some other non-work activity. It’s particularly easy to get distracted if you have an open notification you didn’t see until you went to use that one time code on your phone.

Having a desktop app for your workspace helps hide Slack and other distracting items while context switching between different productivity apps.