Apple cites security concerns for killing PWAs in europe. I mean they could‘ve made changes to the system to allow running PWAs in other browser engines by offering an API in which other applications could hook themselves into, akin to how Android did it with the web activity that is used by other apps.

But then that would mean conceding to the EU and we can‘t have that, can we?

For other people's benefit and my own:

PWA: Progressive Web App

um... what kind of person uses an acronym over and over through a long ass article without ever stating what the fuck that acronym stands for?

Boo paywall

Can we kill locally running web apps from the AppStore next, please?

EU users will be able to continue accessing websites directly from their Home Screen through a bookmark with minimal impact to their functionality.
We expect this change to affect a small number of users. Still, we regret any impact this change — that was made as part of the work to comply with the DMA — may have on developers of Home Screen web apps and our users.

from: https://mashable.com/article/apple-kills-home-screen-web-apps-pwas-in-eu-dma

I understood it as a technical limitation imposed by the changes Europe are demanding. They now have to allow different browser engines, so they can't just use Safari under the hood for PWAs. They will need some UI and the technical underpinning to allow the browser engine to be selected.

Yeah, ok. So now I have the ammunition to convince my friends to avoid apple. Thanks apple. :)

They aren't killing PWAs. They're simply removing them from the home screen. Nothing about this will interfere with the ability to load and operate PWAs.