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I'm an Android developer, I usually spot a non native app immediately and the flaws in the ui are really annoying. Web apps are even worse.
I'm a backend developer so I may be wrong but if the problems are in the UI can't a different frontend solve the issue? I'm unable to spot the difference between sarif and sens sarif fonts so I really don't have any reason to install an app if the website offer a usable UI
The problem is that a webapp will not offer a ui native to a OS. Android, iOS, web, macOS, Windows, all have different ideas about everything that's concerning the UI and UX, from the way to go back, to the position of buttons, to the durations of animations, to the bounciness of things on the screen. Either the web developer creates 5 different ui/ux version of the same app and preys that the browser supports everything he needs, or the webapp will feel native at best on 1 OS.
Applications also have access to APIs that a webapp can't use, like widgets, shortcuts in various parts of the OS, deeper access to bt, contacts, cameras and a slew of other things. Even a "simple" usecase as Reddit/Lemmy could use deeper APIs than what a webapp can do.
That said, I'm at about 60 delivered apps, at least 20 of them should have been websites.