Not OP, but I share their sentiment that sometimes I also "prefer having the option of a dedicated app". Reasons for me: isolation, access to system tray and ot

Not OP, but I share their sentiment that sometimes I also "prefer having the option of a dedicated app". Reasons for me: isolation, access to system tray and other desktop APIs, existence as a separate window which allows for windowmanager-level activation/minimization (I use my own https://github.com/ronjouch/marathon https://github.com/ronjouch/marathon for that), versioning / releases / archival through regular OS packages (e.g. with AUR in Arch Linux land). Also, people love stuff that will look like an "app" in their macOS dock. I maintain https://github.com/jiahaog/nativefier https://github.com/jiahaog/nativefier , which will make regular websites into "native desktop applications" based, obviously, on Electron. Yup, we've come full circle :D I'd offer a counterpoint to folks asking that question: if you love webpages so much, why don't you do write all your code in Cloud9 in your browser? See, sometimes, a separate window brings a different feel and lots of nuances that matter :) . Maybe you don't feel those nuances, so you prioritize other axes (like resource usage), but some people do.