When you buy corn or gas or tires for your car do you really care if it’s subsidized and say something like “oh yeah it was $x, but heavily subsidized”?
Of course not, you only care about how much it costs you.
It doesn't have to be this way though. What you're describing is a result of Apple intentionally prioritizing native over web apps to maintain control of their lucrative walled garden.
There’s no way within web standards to match iOS native api UX. Even on Android where you have chrome as the mobile browser you can’t match it.
Even if you could ship chrome renderer on iOS you won’t be able to make a mobile web app feel as good as an iOS app. The little details, animations, and microinteractions that come with native apps are better, plus there are other less visiual capabilities like background uploads and prefetching. The moment you need something like an in app camera, a native app is going to be so much better.
Related - Charles Foster has put perhaps the most effort of any individual to try to really understand what it's like to live as an animal. From the blurb or 'Being a Beast':
> He lived alongside badgers for weeks, sleeping in a sett in a Welsh hillside and eating earthworms, learning to sense the landscape through his nose rather than his eyes. He caught fish in his teeth while swimming like an otter; rooted through London garbage cans as an urban fox; was hunted by bloodhounds as a red deer, nearly dying in the snow.
The void in the market would be quickly filled by a competitor (users in other threads have mentioned TikTok...). Whether or not this is a negative is an exercise left to the reader.
