Becau of the push for web apps to get around platform (and platform store) limitations.

e.g. Apple banned apps for vapes (not just talking about nic vapes but e.g. there’s a number of cannabis flower vapourisers that use Bluetooth for fine tuned settings, those were forced to move over to web apps as the native apps simply got pulled), but also software like ESPHome is completely web based and needs access to raw USB devices to write the new firmware onto them, the list goes on.

Main issue seems to be that a lot of these APIs don’t require explicit user approval. USB, Bluetooth does, but apparently accessing detailed system statistics doesn’t? Make that make sense…