Google controlling web standards and owning Chrome is a big part of the problem. They get to only allow changes that protect their monopolies, allow invasion of privacy, avoid commoditization of their native Android APIs etc.
To be fair, Google as done a lot for the web. Google is also the one who has been pushing for the web as an alternative to native apps, while Apple has been the one to actively sabotage. If only everyone used Firefox and Mozilla was the one with the most influence...
Right. Without pressure from Chrome we'd be locked into proprietary, incompatible native app stores with no recourse over arbitrary, anti-competitive review processes. The flourishing of web apps like Figma and Notion would never have happened.
The web has many shortcomings as an app platform but at least you can still build what you want without getting permission from a trillion dollar tech giant.
complain all you want but without Google web would've been an obsolete platform. You had to write things in iOS, or Facebook OS or potentialy Azure Intelligent Cloud API.
