This article is a perfect illustration of why Webapps will never be as good as native ones. Webapps are always "untrusted" code so they are arbitrarily and artificially restricted from accessing resources on your local machine.
This is not the exciting early days of the interwebz where script kiddies run amok and it’s mostly for the geeks anymore, it’s where government-affiliated gangs are launching ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure in order to finance nuclear programs. Accessing arbitrary resources on your local machine is how that happens.
Web apps, given a modern browser, naturally have stricter sandboxing, but native apps are treated as untrusted on any modern OS, too. If I launch anything new, the dialog will have me confirm before it accesses anything other than its isolated app data directory.
It is somewhat crazy that macOS doesn’t do that yet.
But the comment I replied to was talking in general terms. Yes, for some APIs native apps are for now more trusted than Web apps, depending on the OS, but the trend is that they are becoming less and less trusted.