>Ultimately I ended up making a PWA that does nothing except act as a bookmark.

Which is exactly what I was going to reply to your original post.

I am willing to bet 80-90% of user don't want / need / care if it is an Native app. They simply want the website / PWA bookmark icon on their App Screen selection.

The problem right now is the experienced of getting a PWA on to an App screen is not user friendly or in someway user hostile because it goes against the fundamental service revenue of their App Store model.