> I feel like chrome apps were actually ahead of their time and very much better than embedding a full browser per app with electron.

> Of course, they were not perfect but IHMO made much more sense than what we have today, at least on a technical standpoint and could have evolved into something truly great.

Killing Chrome Apps isn't about abandoning what they enabled, it's about moving it from Chrome App-specific capabilities to web platform capabilities.

https://developers.chrome.com/apps/migration

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/capabilities