Ultimately I ended up making a PWA that does nothing except act as a bookmark. Which was way more of a PITA than it should have been.
Which is exactly what I was going to reply to your original post.
I am willing to bet 80-90% of user don't want / need / care if it is an Native app. They simply want the website / PWA bookmark icon on their App Screen selection.
The problem right now is the experienced of getting a PWA on to an App screen is not user friendly or in someway user hostile because it goes against the fundamental service revenue of their App Store model.
If a stupid website is turned into an App, then any purchases made through it instantly get slapped with a transaction fee straight to Tim Apple's pockets. There was a whole court case with John Epic about this and everything.
A PWA would bypass that. They really, really, really, really, really dont want that.
"Aim camera at QR code to put "open-link" icon on your home screen"
Does something like that not exist?
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...
Though of course...
> This is not supported on iOS.
It used to be worse.