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I agree. If Apple would support push notifications for PWAs, it would almost level the playground for most kinds of apps.

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That is precisely the reason they are not going to be supported.

I'm not so sure. The Push API and Notification API are two separate things on the web, and one and the same on iOS. It wouldn't be immediately straightforward to wake up a service worker in response to a push event on iOS, so I can believe they are trying to find the optimal way of doing it.

(I also believe it's not a huge priority)

I understand that push notifications are being abused by many sites who just try to spam users but a good number of potential PWA's will become possible of push notifications become available. On the other hand I see Apple being worries about losing control over their walled garden if they give too much freedom to the browser.

I will never understand why push notification permission wasn't put behind click activation like many others are. The span of that permission prompt is very annoying.

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