Between Apple walled garden and the new dev signature thing from Google, those big players sure do like control over what we can do as users.

I agree with you, PWA is the way but Apple has been slow walking integration for years now (see https://brainhub.eu/library/pwa-on-ios)

Because they are the same thing

I think you mean anecdotes my friend

This is what secnumcloud is in France, I hope Europe follows a similar approach.