It's not a personal problem--you're making that up; the purpose of Push is getting native app features in your web app which is good for consumers--especially t

It's not a personal problem--you're making that up; the purpose of Push is getting native app features in your web app which is good for consumers--especially those on less popular operating systems as almost all have some form of modern web browser (and some, like FxOS and its successor KaiOs, fully banking on the web as competent, common-denominator application platform). Opt in is perfect too because it's not hard to clearly communicate what notifications will do and making it the result of a consensual user action and not page load (if page-load-pop-up is still the case, that sucks though). Not every user needs to be coddled. Not every use of Push is malicious. Folks build real apps on the web. You didn't even bother to explain how getting real-time chat notifications isn't a real-world demand. And running through the comments are just as many folks saying PWAs are a real need to them and that this rhetoric is alarmist.