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But owners of these properties do not want users to have that choice, they want users in a mobile app where they can collect more telemetry and spam notifications to get engagement. There’s a reason Reddit aggressively pushes you away from their mobile site.

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That doesn't seem like a reason to be negative about PWAs.

Unless you are an owner worried about PWAs being normalized so that your tracker infested app stands out.

Or a user who has already gone through the era of "enable notifications" spam and is excited for the "install our site" era.

With Reddit specifically, I think they at least have one legitimate reason in addition to the normal nefarious ones. Their new web interface is incredibly slow, especially as you continue browsing over time. On phones, that's likely to cause more serious performance issues than it does on desktop devices.

You can thank the mess of the React eco system for that. There is a new-new one in the works which doesn’t suffer from the same problems.

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