Because the issue under discussion is proprietary applications with sequestered content, versus standards-compliant browsers accessing a public Web.
> To see each app as a threat to "open web" even more stupid.
Try to fill out your argument. Calling it "stupid" isn't an argument.
If an app sequesters content, and if that content would otherwise be publicly available, then the app has nothing but disadvantages compared to a browser -- for the user, not the company that designed the app.
Because the issue under discussion is proprietary applications with sequestered content, versus standards-compliant browsers accessing a public Web.
> To see each app as a threat to "open web" even more stupid.
Try to fill out your argument. Calling it "stupid" isn't an argument.
If an app sequesters content, and if that content would otherwise be publicly available, then the app has nothing but disadvantages compared to a browser -- for the user, not the company that designed the app.
> To pretend that web tech is always superior ...
Straw Man. Only you have made this argument.