I don't know if people who lament having native applications for everything had a completely different approach than me or if their memory is very rose-tinted.

I don't know if people who lament having native applications for everything had a completely different approach than me or if their memory is very rose-tinted. I used to have a folder of several dozen applications I'd move from PC to PC whenever I got a new machine. When I'd poke around my computer I'd find five utilities all doing the same thing like PDF conversion, which I did infrequently enough that I wouldn't remember it was there next time I needed it. I'd have to give full system privileges to an company I'd never heard of who'd built the only freeware tool to do xyz. I understand not wanting to, say, do your emails or document processing in-browser. But these are problems which are still well-served by native applications. I think the fact that all those little utilities are now webapps is an absolute blessing.