Almost no one knows what a progressive web app is. And for most people, the only way they use the internet on their phones is through apps. It just doesn't occur to them to do otherwise.
I wish things were different. It would have saved our company almost a year's worth of development on a pwa.
This is highly dependent on your target market. On Android PWAs effectively are apps as far as users are concerned, you can even make a “WebAPK” and submit it to the Play Store.
The story on iOS is much worse, naturally. But if you can get past getting users to actually install the app the rest of the experience is acceptable.
Can’t we disguise the PWA as a browser on the iOS App Store? So in theory it’s just another browser that only allows to open one website- the PWA. But on the surface, to the users it will be available as an app in App Store.
It is technically possible, of course, though I vaguely recall iOS App Store guidelines saying not to just wrap an existing website in a webview. On the flip side, PWA support in Safari has been gradually improving with better support for web manifests and web notifications, for example.
I wish things were different. It would have saved our company almost a year's worth of development on a pwa.