Hey Consuelo!
Thanks so much for your question.
I haven't personally dug into building Progressive Web Apps, but I'll say I'm really excited about them. They build on the foundation of the web and technologies like service workers give the traditional web experience super powers that gets the web a lot closer to the native experiences people expect today.
The truth of the matter is that mobile app stores are already seeing shrinking numbers. Let's take a look:
- The average number of apps people download per month is 0.
- users spend 84% of their time in just five apps
- 80% of apps never make it to 1,000 downloads
- 84% of users that download an app will delete it after only one use
(via adage.com/article/digitalnext/app-downloads-futur… and qz.com/253618/most-smartphone-users-download-zero…)
It's not that native experiences are bad, it's just that it takes a lot of management and effort to download and maintain a ton of native apps. The web on the other hand is boundless and easily searchable. Today a web experience may not have the same stickiness as native apps, but that very well may change thanks to technologies like Progressive Web Apps. I'm a firm believer in the open web, so if we can build upon that foundation in order to give people better experiences, I'm all for it.