It is totally possible to make MPAs where reloads are never a problem.
As for phone apps these are undeniably a step backwards from desktop apps, web apps and every other kind of app. On the web you can deploy 100 times a day, waiting for the app store to approve changes to your app is like building a nuclear reactor in comparison.
All the time you get harassed in a physical store or a web site to "download our mobile app" and you know there ought to be a steaming pile of poop emoji because the mobile app almost always sucks.
One of the great answers to the app store problem is to move functionality away from the front end into the back, for instance people were looking to do this with chat bots and super apps back in 2017 and now that chatbots are the rage again people will see them as a way to get mobile apps back on internet time.
As for phone apps these are undeniably a step backwards from desktop apps, web apps and every other kind of app. On the web you can deploy 100 times a day, waiting for the app store to approve changes to your app is like building a nuclear reactor in comparison.
All the time you get harassed in a physical store or a web site to "download our mobile app" and you know there ought to be a steaming pile of poop emoji because the mobile app almost always sucks.
One of the great answers to the app store problem is to move functionality away from the front end into the back, for instance people were looking to do this with chat bots and super apps back in 2017 and now that chatbots are the rage again people will see them as a way to get mobile apps back on internet time.