Add to Home Screen without creating PWA
I actually found a work-around for this by referencing an answer on another question.

Short answer: yes!
I faced the same issue and basically tricked my iPad, you simply turn on airplane mode, you don't hit the redirect, you store the &quot;server not found&quot; page on the home screen and you are done :-)
Hope you can now resolve your 4 year old question.

The only addition to this method is that now on iOS 12 you need to turn on airplane and turn off wifi in order to drop all network connections.
Big thanks to Von Lion