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It's a downgrade from a native app performance-wise, but from a security and privacy standpoint there are only upsides. The web browser is the most sophisticated end-user sandbox on your computer. A highly internet-connected app from a company like Meta, which is notorious for privacy violations, belongs in a sandbox.
It's only a sandbox in as far as Google lets it be a sandbox. I'm sure Google has telemetry in chrome that deeply tracks users beyond what is publicly known or available.