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I agree, and yet a lot of users seem to expect apps. To them, if you only have a web site you look unprofessional. Even though we all know perfectly well that most apps are repackaged web sites.

I don't think I have ever felt that only a website feels unprofessional. Anecdotal, but still. A well built, well designed, responsive site is all I need to know that someone is on top of it.

I'd rather see them do 1 method very well than 2 methods haphazardly

Many of those websites don't even need to exist, as pure informational portals. They should just be boards in a (indeally decentralized, uniform) network of news source

Most of those sites operate as apps, and browsers have mostly become an OS. So yes, that does fit my perspective.