What I do, is provide nwjs to those on old versions, so they think they are getting the "application" version, but in reality, its Chromium hard coded to only goto the web application.
So far its a win for both parties, since they are not installing another browser than can interfere with some silly IE6 only internal enterprise site and we get to use the latest browser features.
Believe me, I understand how comments like that get on one's nerves. But civil discourse requires those of us with nerves to tolerate the irritation enough not to toss it back. The system has no steady state: the irritation either grows or we dampen it.