Zoom doesn't require an app, they just hide the link to use the web version pretty well.

You have to click to download the app, then cancel the download, and the link to join via browser appears.

There's an asterisk to that. There was a not insignificant chunk of time that Zoom had to disable their web client, which was a pain...

Yeah, I had the honor of using their web app and it's significantly worse in quality than Zoom desktop app or Meet's web UI. The video was laggy, showed less camera frames and the UI itself was not responding well either.

Significantly worse experience.

The Zoom web app is atrocious. I've been using it these past few weeks and it's an all-around miserable experience. Google Meet is a much superior product compared to Zoom's web app.