> Yes. My tab count regularly exceeds 100.

What do you call a webapp? To me, Gmail is a webapp. Google Docs is a webapp. A video game running in the browser is a webapp. Outlook running in the browser is a webapp. Google Meet is a webapp.

HN is NOT a webapp. Google Search is NOT a webapp. A blog is NOT a webapp. Those are "websites" (again, my wording for clarity).

My stance is that the web is great for websites, not for webapps. Apps should run on the OS, not in the browser.

> most users don't want to download an app to do things outside of Instagram, TikTok etc.

But again, what do they do outside of Instagram, TikTok, etc? Almost nothing, right? And most of that nothing is probably done on websites, not webapps.

Sure, they don't want to install an app to order something on Temu/Zalando. But those should be websites anyway.

> Invisible hand of the free market tends to take care of that.

Invisible hand doesn't work in a market ruled by quasi monopolies.

> I really don't understand how some people think it's possible to craft a "perfect" version 1.0 of anything and then release it out into the wild with 0 problems.

In good approximation, nobody thinks that. That's why you can update software. Which is done in webapps in a way, though brute-force style: instead of updating the webapp when it changes, you re-download it every time.

> Instead of bemoaning the state of the internet, it's more productive to find opportunities in the current chaos.

My point is: "don't write webapps, write native apps". There are plenty of opportunities there.