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> Web apps run in the context of a separate process called `Web App.app`. Separating Safari and Web App allows both to run independently. You can open a Web app without opening Safari, you can close Safari without all web apps closing.

This is a big thing that's dampened my desktop usage of PWAs with Chrome and other Cloniums - it's highly irritating for Chrome itself to fire up when I launch an installed PWA. Not a problem if Chrome is your main browser I suppose, but that's not an assumption that should be made. Glad Apple took this route on this.



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