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To open a webpage you have first to run a native binary. So, running a native binary is necessarily easier than opening a webpage.

You are confusing "Number of steps" with "Easy".

They're also the same number of steps. If I tell my OS to open an `html` file, it opens a browser window.

If doing task B requires doing task A first, then doing task A is necessarily easier than doing task B.

I think you're confusing "simple" and "easy". One task vs two is simpler, yes.