Re: [w3c/manifest] beforeinstallprompt : Prompting user makes it to hard to discern whether the user truly wanted to "install" a web app (#835)

> We don't want to give away that control to web apps / sites.
Specs cannot give recommandation about the UI, so each browser can have it's how way to implement an install/a2hs UI and the burden of education will be on the developer.
And even if browsers share a similar experience, it won't be natural for the user to install an app (especially during the education period), so as a developer you'll have to promote it with UA sniff and this kind of intrusives things
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/870154/39285397-80ea3b34-495b-11e8-8e1e-b84861125bbd.png
https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/84#issuecomment-384507840

With `beforeinstallprompt`, developer can provide a better & consistent UX to install/a2hs (and it's just a shortcut which triggers the browser install process, not the install process itself). 
It's maybe not perfect, it could be reworked but remove it won't help (me - as a dev - and my users).

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