Honestly, these cross-platform apps are way better than the native apps of yore. I'd take VSCode any day over XCode or Sublime. Slack pretty much just works and

Honestly, these cross-platform apps are way better than the native apps of yore. I'd take VSCode any day over XCode or Sublime. Slack pretty much just works and is way less finicky than LimeChat ever was. The reality is that the browser has become the OS that everyone targets. In many ways, this is a good thing. The apps I run on my Mac work just as well on Windows and Linux. You mention Microsoft/Apple dominating office software. But there's a whole new world built on top of things like Notion and Google Docs/Sheets now. Web apps are more than capable enough today outside of niche scenarios.