I still think it’s silly to feel safer to run the code outside of the browser sandbox, but I also understand. Ad companies have abused browser tracking and fingerprinting so much, and I hate them for it. What I’m trying to say is don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.

As a developer, it’s way easier to build a cross platform websites than maintain a native app for each platform. A lot of “native” apps are actually just web apps in a wrapper or halfway between native and web solution like React Native. Web lowers the barrier of entry to get your app out the door.