And as a developer, I see how I'm going to be collateral damage, and am less likely to do anything that gives Apple more power over me and my customers. If that means a bookmarked web app, so be it.

My company has been mulling over whether we should introduce an "app" for our product, and I've been pushing for a PWA as a nice middle ground. It feels like the right plan with the recent news of Apple's malicious compliance (pre-PWA reports), but now I'm not sure what we should do.

Apple doesn't care about developers, but because of their market share, they can screw us over however they want; because what are we going to do, not release on iOS?

Idk if you have kids, but tantrums usually involve trying to claw and scream your way into not giving something up

It could very easily be worth it to maintain a gimped iOS for Europe. We’re talking about a lot of money here.

We also know 70% of revenue comes from games. And there's no way proper game is going run on a PWA.

I also invoke Android again... PWAs exist, Google still holds the lions share. Google has freaked out about it too and is being sanctioned as we speak for it, but most customers simply aren't going to look for an alt app store outside of niche uses.

If we’re looking at a game that doesn’t use a lot of hardware resources like Candy Crush or Angry Birds, those could possibly run quite well as a PWA?

In particular, all game streaming services (Geforce Now, Xbox Game Pass etc.) have until very recently needed to exist as PWAs since Apple would not let them into the App Store.

The crucial PWA feature here is being able to display them in full screen, without Safari's navigation bar.

Some games work really well as a PWA. Acquiring users is much cheaper too compared to an app.