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@obsolescentsapien @drazraeltod @pluralistic that's a really oversimplified view of what even most proprietary apps are. There are a ton of usability and practical benefits to using apps over websites, since the interface is all run locally and natively and can therefore take advantage of the speed and accessibility and consistency and so on of the native UI toolkit. You would be shocked how difficult it is to actually use a website that's designed to be as fully featured as an app, because nothing ever quite works right and everything is super buggy because you're trying to simulate a native user interface with a tech stack that was absolutely not designed to do that and is shitty at it, with a massive performance penalty on top of it. The web is a really really shitty application platform and I really wish people would stop using it for that because it's just not designed for it and trying to use it for that turns every tech stack into this gigantic buggy Rube Goldberg machine leaning tower of abstractions that's horrible to use. If anything I think we need to do the opposite of what you're suggesting and go *back* to using native apps more. On the desktop as well. Please. Dear god. Stop making me use web apps.