This everything-is-a-website mentality is a disaster for privacy, security, and the future of decentralized general-purpose computing.
- Convenience of just going to a site and not installing anything.
- Cross platform, if you have a browser most web apps will work.
- Being relatively certain that by just visiting a web app you're not going to end up with malware or other unwanted software
- Being able to access your app from other locations without admin access.
- Updates are ready and available instantly
There are of course many many more benefits.
I get that not everything has to be a web app but it's disingenuous to imply that they have no use cases.
We still don't have a reasonably easy way to write cross-platform applications (Mac/Win/Lin/Phone) in a native-first language. The reason JS has taken off is because it filled a rather HUGE hole.
If there is a chance that is changing, let us know, but right now, the hole isn't being filled with anything else.
The point is to remove the need to install things.
> security
An image editor that runs entirely in the browser and only has sandboxed access to open and save dialogs is more secure by miles than running a random .msi installer.