The app updates you mention are most likely due to the problem of not being able to hot update client side code easily / at all in the google/apple ecosystems.
Web actually excels here because you can use service workers to manage versioning and caching so that backwards compatibility is never a concern.
Yes but those updates aren’t guaranteed like they are on web, so you have to ensure backwards compatibility at all times or do painful forced upgrade modals.
Uber still has plenty of drivers in Europe using super super years old versions of the app (I think to circumvent new limits or something) and they still have to keep it working for them
Web actually excels here because you can use service workers to manage versioning and caching so that backwards compatibility is never a concern.