For a long time I thought they were a cloud IDE "with steroids" to "justify", but I never bought the idea that a webapp would ever be better for professional sw

For a long time I thought they were a cloud IDE "with steroids" to "justify", but I never bought the idea that a webapp would ever be better for professional swe. For that use case, I don't see a valuable thing in a browser environment that can't be delivered in a desktop env.