Comment by fastball

Honestly no, it's not really about the native APIs at all. People just like having an app that doesn't feel like a website at all, and you can't quite get rid of that feeling with a PWA. We started trying to push PWA, and uptake wasn't great. Then we wrapped our web app in Electron and Capacitor and people loved it, even though we hadn't actually integrated with really any of the platform APIs.