I still don't understand the fascination with webapps packaged as mobile apps. Why jumping through the hoops of setting up an account to install from an appsto

I still don't understand the fascination with webapps packaged as mobile apps. Why jumping through the hoops of setting up an account to install from an appstore, granting all kinds of access to god knows who to your private stuff. Instead of using the most uptodate version from a browser directly.