i had the same thing in mind, though, is not that part of the process until the release of available? should not the release already have the maintainers input?
I think they started as cool kids and they changed their mind on the way. I'm using postman for a long time. I liked it, i preferred the online version, slowly slowly they started to push users towards the app, making it harder and harder first to use it without and account, then to use the online version. This is how I ended up with a heavy desktop app, when i needed something simple and easy to use.
I wrote my own api invoker, https://placeholders.cc/api-invoker/, mainly because postman is slow, eats a ton of memory and it becomes more and more restrictive to non logged in users. In don't mind having an electron based application like open. but i hate to have 10 like it open in the same time.