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What's in it for you as a user is that the app exists at all. A lot of apps either aren't meant to be profitable (government services apps, ngos etc) or won't be profitable enough after paying for developing the app 3x. Building them as a PWA is what makes them viable at all.

If users are willing to pay the extra cost for a carefully handcrafted native app for any particular use case the market will step up and provide it.



What stops devs from making PWAs anyways even when people want to pay for a native app? Cheaper that way.




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