Ignoring the whataboutism, there are important questions we should tease out and address head-on: the role of FOMO in developer decision-making and how adjacency-theory explains suppressed use
That follows from the power of links: if you can't link to it, it isn't on the web. And if you can't bring certain classes of apps to the linkable set, then the whole is less powerful *even if most apps never exercise that power*.
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These are flywheel effects; every app that's outside your platform creates more incentives not to develop on it. Everyone's looking sideways at what "everyone else" does.
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A further (key) subtelty: most metaplatforms are happy to optimise for the short-term. They tend to build direct pass-throughs to underlying native systems in order to quickly gain market share (see also: Cordova, Electron, etc.). These incidentally tie developers to OSes.
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