What was the decision behind this? Why not to develop a native app (swift or objective-c), that would be better optimized and would perform better? Isn't ther

What was the decision behind this? Why not to develop a native app (swift or objective-c), that would be better optimized and would perform better? Isn't there enough evidence that wrapped web apps like Slack or Atom (and now Spotify) perform worse than the native apps?