We are pretty close to being a proper Progressive Web App, and I definitely see this as the long-term goal of our current design.
There is no reason to reload the whole LW application on every visit, but with Application Storage being phased out as a web-technology, and Service Workers not yet being fully available on Safari and Edge, there isn’t yet a great way to give everyone a good experience with a progressive web app. But I expect this will change within the coming year, with safari and iOS support being in the late stages of the beta. So there is a reason behind the design choices we are making.
We are pretty close to being a proper Progressive Web App, and I definitely see this as the long-term goal of our current design.
There is no reason to reload the whole LW application on every visit, but with Application Storage being phased out as a web-technology, and Service Workers not yet being fully available on Safari and Edge, there isn’t yet a great way to give everyone a good experience with a progressive web app. But I expect this will change within the coming year, with safari and iOS support being in the late stages of the beta. So there is a reason behind the design choices we are making.