You're mixing things up. A web app does not ship a web browser, the user brings their own. You're thinking of electron apps. When using web apps, the browser y

You're mixing things up. A web app does not ship a web browser, the user brings their own. You're thinking of electron apps. When using web apps, the browser you bring is no different than, say, having to install Qt. It's a static entity shared by all apps, with each app "just" being anywhere between kilobytes and tens of megabytes. Electron brings a browser, but even then what makes the app bloated is still design Theres a baseline amount of bulk included, but it's mostly inconsequential to the actual app behavior - similar to how a standard system has god knows how many libraries and functions available but mostly unusued. You could easily have an app written with PyQt that's way more sluggish, bloated and complicated despite using a fraction of the disk space. Shitty apps, that's the issue.