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To me, properly optimized native apps tend to be less-bloated than their web equivalents. Have you ever used "RIF is fun" for reddit? It is amazing, lots of tiny UI optimizations make it a pleasure to consume content much faster than scrolling up and down reddit's UI for both links and comments
Jerboa is almost 70 times bigger than the PWA ...
Are you going to ignore the rest of what I wrote? lol
The app just feels better/faster. Think of this way: a webapp = browser + pwa. You have all of the resource requirements of the browser itself, plus whatever it needs to render the html/css of the webapp running on top of that. many webapps are just written so poorly (like the new reddit page) that the browser struggles to do simple things like smooth scrolling). Plus being native means there is better support for things like save/print dialogs, themes/dark mode, helper apps/intents, etc)
If none of this matters to you and a webapp feels ok to you, that's great! use what you want! I'm happy for you
But you came in here asking why people prefer native apps and we gave you an answer, you don't have to be antagonistic
first things first ... English isn't my first language and I'm sorry if I sounded antagonistic. I'm a bit frustrated because, a lot of users doesn't even know about PWA and they asks for the development of mobile apps when their needs can be fulfilled with a PWA
I don't recall using RIF for reddit, I remember trying a lot of app and feel like I was let down by them so I switch to the browser. It did what I need, I didn't even feel it lagging while scrolling. Ok, PWA doesn't have access to some native API (and I'm not even sure if apple finally gave up and let its users have browser push notifications) but for some usecases this isn't a problem ...