Why do people build standalone apps over web apps
To preface I've been a software engineer and founder for a decade now and having built many apps there are so many frictions to distributing a standalone application rather than a webapp.
The first one that comes to mind is how quickly webapps can iterate--you simply build and deploy and when users refresh their website they get serviced the newest version of your app. For a startup or anyone building an app that is paramount to how quickly you can get out bug fixes and have users using new features. In contrast if you're building a standalone application the user has to go through some update or download flow to get these new features.
I see companies like Discord that have both and wonder why companies or individuals tend to build in both realms or even consider a standalone?