Also back in that day 95% of our users were on Windows and we had a direct relationship with them. Now your user base is roughly split 40/40 between iOS and An

Also back in that day 95% of our users were on Windows and we had a direct relationship with them. Now your user base is roughly split 40/40 between iOS and Android with a non-ignorable 20 running some windows tablet thing. Then for extra fun your access to those users is mediated by the giant black boxes staffed by assholes that are the iOS and Play stores. And of course back then nobody had any expectation that your software would easily sync between devices and users because that just wasn't something that was doable easily. The world changes. Yeah it was better for us devs back then, but honestly the new world has some real advantages. For me personally, I'm cautiously optimistic that PWAs are our way out of the hell that is supporting 3 native platforms for all but the rarest cases.