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You are technically correct, but removing a feature for a large number of important platforms is still a weird move, especially in the context of PWAs becoming more and more widely used on all platforms.

Your point is correct - they removed it from desktops - but it still doesn't answer the question about the why it was removed.

It’s still a weird decision, because if I’m going to want a PWA anywhere it’s most likely to be on desktop, not mobile.

On mobile OSes there’s usually mobile apps available for a given service, but that’s not the case on desktop, where it’s sometimes useful to eschew browser chrome and defer window management to the OS window manager.