I wouldn't describe it as "conservative" but as "pro-native-apps and anti-web-apps", which seems irrational in this day and age where "native apps" means platform lock-in by monopolies, less sandboxing and user-control than on the web, much more gatekeeping and control over published binaries, and these days the web app is usually a more private/secure alternative to the native app (which also bundles a marketing SDK, now, and fingerprints you invisibly via iCloud Keychain, tracks you with various identifiers, and more).
If native platforms removed USB or Bluetooth, the "control over my own hardware" crowd would flip a table. I just wish they also understood the benefits of the web compared to native. The Chrome/Project Fugu team's dream of making the web platform as powerful as native platforms is the correct one from a user freedom standpoint, or at bare minimum a "user choice" standpoint.
If native platforms removed USB or Bluetooth, the "control over my own hardware" crowd would flip a table. I just wish they also understood the benefits of the web compared to native. The Chrome/Project Fugu team's dream of making the web platform as powerful as native platforms is the correct one from a user freedom standpoint, or at bare minimum a "user choice" standpoint.