Do I want those apps to be slow, sluggish, non-native feeling web apps?
I've seen many apps on iOS that just feel… weird. Especially the scroll. It's my understanding that many such apps are just web views.
Anyone doing non-native apps on my phone will almost[0] never get money from me.
[0] There has to be the occasional exception, I suppose.
Also web apps are not censored by the app store guidelines.
Neither is any of the apps on custom F-Droid repos.
This is well understood by the adtech industry and is why so many websites push apps in the first place.
Do you think an iPhone with the tracking blocker engaged is still a richer source of data than the web app on an iPhone? Facebook claims that Apple's privacy protections cost them $10 billion of revenue the first year.
When i close the webpage, that page is gone. It's not running in the background silently collecting data. With a properly configured browser (a few extensions, no third party cookies, or even separate containers), it doesn't have much data to gather in the first place.