I think the shift to web apps and repackaged web apps happened largely because of how insanely hard it is to roll a decent multiplatform app between mac, windows and the various linux platforms even before considering mobile. For example, the OGL backend for GTK3 has been broken on MacOS for years and while there's been a rewrite for GTK4, porting from 3 to 4 is non trivial and so is maintaining 3+4 so GG if you're a small project.