>>Windows Desktop apps need no longer be replaced by Rube Goldberg development for browser.

How about browsers apps that Rube never touched that were once desktop apps?
Back in the 90's if you called LL Bean to order jeans you were talking to someone attached to a LAN.
That LAN app has been replaced by a slick browser app that does a lot more.

Yes, I agree that a lot of mobile users prefer an app to the browser.