My answer was in particular to: "If our future does shift towards thin-clients and web-browsers". Thin client leaves processing to a server. It does not matter

My answer was in particular to: "If our future does shift towards thin-clients and web-browsers". Thin client leaves processing to a server. It does not matter in this case if your "offline-first" UI is resident / cached on a client side. These are just glorified web bookmarks