I feel like we’ve all known that web apps are better in principle for years (see Amir’s points) — but only more recently that seems to become true in practice. https://twitter.com/amix3k/status/1321404287566680064

Companies like @figmadesign, @Pitch & others exploit the natural affordances of the web in ways that will forever be difficult for desktop software.

Sketch making a “mistake” here feels like a funny thing to say though. It’s not like they could suddenly make a web based version with a company whose expertise & IP is mostly around native apps. Instead they double down on their strengths.

They can be the premier app for a shrinking group of users and until that group has become too small they have time to reinvent themselves and find a new market/niche.