Perhaps there’s a difference between “not a web app” and “not a web app exclusively”?
Let’s see how we got here. Many applications sell their virtue as being “everywhere” because our data is in someone’s cloud. Well, for a lot of folks, that’s nice but it’s also risky. So, Obsidian (and others) removed the “data in someone’s cloud” bit by making the data local. Unfortunately that cuts off a lot of users – some of them entirely. (I.e., the folks upstream on this thread, and I count myself among them.)
Maybe the forthcoming Obsidian sync feature is an answer? I don’t know if @silver or others have told us anywhere exactly what that would be doing and if it helps the case of “we cannot always be connected to our local data” or “our employers block our use”.