I think there are some advantages to "installing" PWAs to your phone. As I understand it you're grabbing a ball of HTML, CSS, Javascript, a bunch of assets, and

I think there are some advantages to "installing" PWAs to your phone. As I understand it you're grabbing a ball of HTML, CSS, Javascript, a bunch of assets, and whatever else your website needs and presenting it in a chromeless browser (a browser without UI, not without Chrome). If your PWA has significant offline capability, this can be useful. Think of Google Drive on a laptop. You can enable offline mode, which essentially saves a similar ball of assets to your cache and saves copies of your files to local storage. You can use most of the capabilities offline just like you were online (obviously not anything that actually requires internet). There are advantages to appear like an app to the user. User's tend to assume "If I have no internet, websites don't work" which obviously isn't the case with drive in offline mode. But it's hard to fight that. The expectation around apps is that they generally do work offline, so it tricks / socially-engineers / whatever the user into that assumption.