Apple's core argument seems to be that building out secure PWA support for 3rd party browser engines is quite onerous. Does that seem credible? Anyone have more insight that can speak to this?
A short term compromise would just be to keep existing PWA support where it's Safari/WebKit only. That seems strictly better.
I’d wager the C Suite at Apple, at most, approved PWA support but it was an engineer-boosted project. In contrast the DMA compliance stuff is definitely driven exclusively by the legal and strategic teams.
The legal team isn’t concerned with gutting PWA feature and PWAs aren’t strategic for the company.
Their real argument (to shareholders etc) is that they want that 30% rake on everything you buy, so they want you to have 900 apps on your phone instead of a web browser than visits 900 websites.
A short term compromise would just be to keep existing PWA support where it's Safari/WebKit only. That seems strictly better.