While I agree that self-hosted PWA will have _some_ success (especially for easier use cases) and that cloud services are worse for the user than a local app in

While I agree that self-hosted PWA will have _some_ success (especially for easier use cases) and that cloud services are worse for the user than a local app in use cases suitable for the latter… it seems like a big load of wishful thinking to believe that PWA would replace cloud services in any significant way: The truth is that we already had and have local apps that worked fine for the user (that is: native local apps, including cross-platform) and that despite that, cloud services gained terrain on them enormously. The main reason being that cloud services offer enormous benefits to the selling/operating company: the revenue is more calculable and less prone to the piracy issues of local software. The proportion of users who have enough awareness to recognize the problems of cloud services are a minority. And the only thing that self-hosted PWAs really add compared to the classic native local apps, compared to which they have a lot of disadvantages, is that their development has a somewhat lower learning curve compared to cross-platform native software development (though the latter isn't that hard either and the reasons why many native apps were not cross-platform have nothing to do with technical problems in most cases). As for the way the article pits "communities" against "big tech": I see that more as a matter of open source and open data communities… for which local PWAs really aren't that much of a big game changer as the article imagines.