Sorry if I did not understand your example, are you afraid of companies offering a webpage for configuring your printer/drone/device instead of a stand alone a

Sorry if I did not understand your example, are you afraid of companies offering a webpage for configuring your printer/drone/device instead of a stand alone application, Then if the site goes down you can't configure your thing? If this is the case then you are asking to not allow features for the good developers because bad/lazy developers exists. I have a Canon printer that works fine on Linux but I do not have the GUI executable like on Windows, so one day it did not work anymore, I had no idea what to do so i installed the driver on a Windows VM , let the VM to access the printer and I got a diagnostic (I forgot to open a tray thing). So for this case if the printer devs could make this diagnostic tool as a webpage or Electron app would have helped me a lot (I was lucky I already had a Windows VM)