I don't think PWAs are necessarily at odds with this? One use case I could imagine is setting up a website that a parent or grandparent frequently uses as an app icon on their phone's home screen, it can help avoid a lot of browsing UX hurdles people like us often take for granted

pixelfed offer an app and a responsive website; you can think of it as an open source and federated alternative to Instagram (I'm not sure why I use it besides welcoming people leaving meta's services and up voting pictures of cats and dogs).

The web experience is technically more capable than the android app, which I believe uses react native anyway. Having it as a pwa kind of neatly tucks it away from my other browsing on my phone.