Folks in these comments seem to be missing the point re: Safari lacking features, specifically features which would allow for 1) greater access to the hardware,

Folks in these comments seem to be missing the point re: Safari lacking features, specifically features which would allow for 1) greater access to the hardware, and 2) PWAs. Apple isn’t just lagging behind. They very intentionally do not want web APIs to become a viable app development platform on their hardware ecosystem. Other hardware vendors are rapidly catching up to Apple in terms of hardware quality, so the main remaining differentiator for Apple becomes quality of software experiences. This is, of course, precisely the arena in which Apple currently dominates, owing to their investment in making their app dev stack the best in the world. More than anything else, they do NOT want to lose that advantage. So, a non-proprietary app dev platform which matches or exceeds the quality of their own? Yikes. If they allow Safari to become a gateway to such a platform, it would truly be an incomparable existential threat to their app development and distribution model. I personally think it’s inevitable, but... you can better believe Apple will fight it as hard as they can, for as long as they can. My money’s on their next CEO slipping up and allowing a full glorious Web implementation to be built. There goes any advantage to developing software experiences for the proprietary Apple platform, and that’ll be the true beginning of the end for the modern successful Apple.