I prefer apps and desktop apps when they are available. They feel and work nicer mostly than web based. But we live more and more in a browser world and there is less and less choice and I understand I must move with the times.
Most of the time it's just incompetence, they import the 1823 js libraries and ask for all the permissions their libraries could use in that corner case that happens once every 1760 years.
I prefer apps when they work mostly offline and don't try to send my private data to various third parties. I tend to prefer the browser which allows me to control a little bit more what it does for everything else.
