A few years ago, I remember searching like crazy for a good Twitter client for Linux. I tried, for example, these three, but the user experience and how limited they are made me get bored of them in hours, literally. I used Tweetbot on macOS, and there was simply no color. When Jack Dorsey and his team decided to change the interface of the social network, the best option was to use the browser, and that is something that is also happening to me in many other web applications.
On mobile, there was a moment when I thought "Why use a YouTube app when I can watch the videos in the browser?", and I uninstalled the app. More recently, YouTube has limited the possibility of making PiP (floating video) in the app if you do not pay for the Premium version, and that is another reason to enter the platform from the browser: there are browser extensions that allow you to make PiP, but this is more difficult to do in the official app.
Web applications are getting better and better
All the web applications are getting better. On the one hand, they work on the user interface (UI) and experience (UX) so that they differ little or nothing from what installable applications offer. There are many examples, like Tract, inoreader, that of the RENFE or WhatsApp web, that the only thing we can do in Linux is to install... just a web-app.
Also, using the web versions we can take advantage of everything that the browser offers usFor example, we can translate a service that is not in our language or block advertising that appears in free applications. Moral issue aside, we control how we use web apps, something we can't do with local apps. Although I do have Telegram installed, the truth is that it could also be used quite well from the browser. The notifications work, but I have to admit that not everything on the web is always the best.
There are apps that worsen the user experience
As if web apps alone weren't getting better enough, there are also cases where using the official app is, some would say, like a bad disease. For example, the Movistar+ mobile app, well, it works, but the one they have designed for Smart TV (both on Android TV and on tvOS) works just fine. disgusting. They have wanted to make her very pretty, but she is a devourer of resources. I don't know who came up with the fact that, when hovering over a content, the related information has to be opened, after playing a sound, and in both cases it goes in jerks. Even the image is cut off in some channels, something that does not happen in the web version. Reminder: Browsers can be installed on Android TV.
Of course, to use a web application you have to be connected to the internet, and if our team has limited resources and our connection is slow, in that case it is worth installing the application, even if it is like Photopea, to gain a bit of independence.
But I install less and less applications. The main reason is that the web versions they are powerful enough as for me to forget its installable version; I don't even consider installing MS Office if its web version it works for me. And I also use the web more and more because I am a Linux user, and a lot of what they offer us is nothing more than web applications modified to use them installed. Also, I like to use Vivaldi, and in its side panel I have Twitter, Inoreader, WhatsApp Web, DeepL, the Movistar cloud... If I had to have all that in the bottom panel/dock, I could go crazy, and the truth is that most of the time you don't need to have all of that open (in the browser they are hibernating).
We can use Visual Studio Code on mobile
Editors like Visual Studio Code are one of those apps worth having installed, since that's how you get the most out of them, but it's also the best example of how web apps are evolving. If, for whatever reason, and I assure you that there are cases, one decides to write some code from the mobile, it has been a long time since you can do it from a browser. In the future, it's likely that many services can be used from any computer that can move a browser, and that's good for everyone, especially users who are more likely to forget developers.