Nothing prevents a Web app from having good keyboard shortcuts; Gmail and Linear are great examples.
GitHub becomes much more comfortable with the Refined GitHub extension. It adds a bunch of keyboard shortcuts, among a ton of other small improvements.
> Nothing prevents a Web app from having good keyboard shortcuts; Gmail and Linear are great examples.
I think nothing prevents a web app from having keyboard shortcuts, but more often than not what I see is web apps having bad keyboard shortcuts that hijack the browser's natural behavior (taking over <ctrl>-f is a good example). I think often people go at this as if it's an Electron app and not a browser that has literally a hundred other interfaces loaded into it, leading the user to have certain expectations.
All that aside your Gmail example is spot on, and I'm one of those google-hatin' dudes.
Yes, the unfortunate tradition of hijacking Ctrl+F is annoying. OTOH the forming tradition to use Ctrl+K to show a command palette / command line is commendable.