I ended up writing a huge wall of text for this, but realized it was too much. The article I think makes too many proclamations without supporting a single one

I ended up writing a huge wall of text for this, but realized it was too much. The article I think makes too many proclamations without supporting a single one with logic or evidence, and I'm not really interested in articles that put the onus on me to justify the author. Most everything from the article seems to be lifted from the following article, but rephrased without nearly as much justification: https://infrequently.org/2022/06/apple-is-not-defending-browser-engine-choice/ https://infrequently.org/2022/06/apple-is-not-defending-brow... And the main thing that stands out to me on the above linked article and the parent article is the focus on WebApps (PWAs) or other restrictions Apple puts on iOS. To which I say "good riddance, toss it out with the rest of the trash", cause I don't need every single website having that much access to my phone and especially notifications. Even on MacOS, the defaults for what can and cannot send notifications are insane and very frustrating, and the less said about Android the better; I don't even use that many apps on my android phone and I'm tired of the countless notifications to dismiss every morning that are just absolute spam. The lack of granularity means that I can't really pick if my delivery app only triggers notifications for actual deliveries versus just random spam notifications; it's either a few useful notifications during a transaction I care about once or twice a week along with dozens of notifications a week, or no notifications at all. The Calendar app default on my phone tries to spam notifications to get me to use it. Notifications have become heavily abused by developers and I absolutely don't trust them at all to use Notifications responsibly. Apple limiting what developers can do here, even if it's just laziness on Apple's part, is a huge relief for me. The main issue I have with WebApps is the annoyance factor and the presumption that I have any intention of maintaining constant interaction with a site for more than a few minutes. Websites for me are an information portal and in the case of forums, a slow communication medium. The idea that I want to visit a site perpetually and constantly is really foreign for me, and the software that I might visit frequently such as Instagram or TikTok for just some temporary amusement, it seems that the website version gives exactly what I want pretty fast without the need for a WebApp and its limitations. I _like_ websites because at least with Firefox I can control the content I see with µblock and other extensions. Once it's in a webapp, I'm at the mercy of whatever fancy the developer has. I don't get the benefits of a full app, I don't get the flexibility of a browser and its features/extensions, it's whatever the webdevs decided as best I can tell (accessibility features can pack it up and go home) and you just get a barebones web browser with all of the strength of browsers stripped out. Funny enough, MacOS had webapp widgets since as long as widgets existed on MacOS (when it was still OS X), and frankly speaking I don't think anyone ever used them. I thought it would be cool when I first saw the feature, but quickly realized how much I missed the browser features that made the web bearable.