I’ve never once heard anyone say “you know Electron is such a great experience on the desktop, I would love to have all my mobile apps to be web based too”.
How many different versions of the operating system do they need to support because of how soon Android phones are abandoned by the manufacturers?
But this still doesn’t answer the question, if PWAs are so great on Android, then why are the same companies who are making iOS apps making Android apps instead of just telling Android users to use the web version?
Every year there is some excuse (usually missing API X) why they aren't a success.
I also think ad tech companies will prefer native apps for major markets (iOS) because it is tougher to block ads. PWAs tend not to support content blockers at the moment, but there certainly can.
What does your app do that's so special it needs more than a console game?
Only one of these definitions just cost Google $5 billion settlement for tracking Chrome incognito mode users.
From investigation to enforcement to adjudication all the way to the ECJ you’ll be looking at roughly 10 years.
Once all of that has played out, maybe some other jurisdiction might then decide to copy some parts.
We haven’t even entered the pre-investigation phase in which the EU will wag their fingers.