The EU gave Apple an argument to kill PWAs (because the investment to support them is not worth it for them), while Apple does not like PWAs anyways. Bad for the citizens of the EU.
PWAs give Apple an out from having certain apps (for example, FetLife) on the App Store without making the phone a non-starter for people who want to use them. As much as Apple likes its walled garden, it likes the walls just fuzzy enough to not piss people off into migrating.
Apple just want to make the regulation itself annoying.
And annoying it is. I'm not on the side of Apple here, but also question the way regulators work, because lately the outcome of IT-regulation in some cases seems to be a net negative for citizens.
