Fair point. What I was mostly trying to get across is that native mobile apps can leverage UX/UI features not available to mobile web apps (hence the comparison

Fair point. What I was mostly trying to get across is that native mobile apps can leverage UX/UI features not available to mobile web apps (hence the comparison to the Reddit mobile web client). Being/having a good designer definitely helps, but it seems to me that there are serious benefits to not being constrained by whatever web browser the platform you’re working on provides.