It's always seemed to me that the shift away from native desktop apps had a lot more to do with Windows headaches, rather than any inherent consumer preference

It's always seemed to me that the shift away from native desktop apps had a lot more to do with Windows headaches, rather than any inherent consumer preference for web apps. And for the average user, today's mobile platforms don't have much at all in common with the Windows software life cycle [1]. So I'm not sure why it would be in the users' interests to move to web apps. And thus I'm puzzled at why people expect it to spontaneously happen. Particularly when evidence seems to suggest the exact opposite, people moving toward native apps, on console-like devices. [1] finding, vetting, scanning, installing, using, moving to new machine, syncing, fiddling, repairing, upgrading, cursing, uninstalling.