It's possible to imagine a way to do this with signing and Web Packaging, but most users and developers don't need this most of the time.
"Installed" is overloaded. Today, that means giving up everything to everyone all the time. We pay far too much for convenience today (on nearly all OSes).
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So, why do you think that people would ever install Slack desktop over using it in Chrome, then? IMO there's still a distinction.
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He did stipulate that we give up what we give up for convenience. Slack not a good example though - the desktop web app is wayyyyy good enough for me. It takes a lot more to get me to install a desktop app
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