Everything just pops up a layer though, you now have to deal with performance and behavior differences between browsers. And for games you'll see everyone accounting for the 80% case (Chrome) maybe the 20% case (Firefox/Safari) and everyone else left out in the cold. Somewhat simpler API surface layer though.
The real beauty of the web is to be able to jump into something just by following a link and that lets you do some really fun things. For example we recently collaborated with the streamer Day[9] to build this swarm game* he played with his audience. That basically requires the ease of access you get from the web experience:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs1p22oI_V4
* - The whole game was also built from inside a browser.
The real beauty of the web is to be able to jump into something just by following a link and that lets you do some really fun things. For example we recently collaborated with the streamer Day[9] to build this swarm game* he played with his audience. That basically requires the ease of access you get from the web experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs1p22oI_V4
* - The whole game was also built from inside a browser.