They've been around for over a decade in various incarnations and they are always clunky, poorly designed and developed for the lowest common denominator.
And often what developers are vocal about wanting is anti-consumer e.g. most people like a single point for all subscriptions/payments.
I believe the counter argument is platforms are purposefully crippling or at least not advancing their mobile web experience in order to keep native apps a better experience. Personally I don't believe the case since even on the desktop web-based apps are a poor experience. Slack has such a weird desktop UI all because it isn't a true native app.
That isn't the case for Android or Windows, both Google and Microsoft are pretty heavy on PWAs, including providing access to native APIs if you package them for the stores.
>"And often what developers are vocal about wanting is anti-consumer e.g. most people like a single point for all subscriptions/payments."
And then they get into dispute with Google and get their account terminated as the result along with their only email etc etc. Thanks but no thanks. I do not know about most but personally I prefer freedom of choice.
I have seen mobile Web apps much better than clunky Cordova stuff that the same consumers worship as native.
While I am on the native side, what brings money home are cross platform projects, and for CRUD stuff mobile Web is just fine, provided one doesn't download a SPA over 3G to display static text.
They've been around for over a decade in various incarnations and they are always clunky, poorly designed and developed for the lowest common denominator.
And often what developers are vocal about wanting is anti-consumer e.g. most people like a single point for all subscriptions/payments.