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What was stopping companies from doing PWAs before? Were they not annoyed at 30% cut? Was the cost of maintaining a separate app for a single platform too small to care about?

Lack of support from Apple's monopoly iPhone browser engine Safari. It didn't even get notification support until 2 years ago. And then there was a recent attempt by Apple to remove PWAs altogether from iOS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39299007

Apple was and is stopping companies from doing PWAs.

Then they should just code for Android, stay there and leave us in the Apple Ecosystem alone.

I have no effin need for a second store, or a third or a fifth.

Well then, with that argument you can also stay with apple store and leave those second, third and fifth stores alone for those who want them.

Trust me, you're overweighting how much your feelings matter in this and most developers simply do not give a shit.