Alternative end game: the browser dies slowly, gradually being replaced by native apps. We're already seeing this: consumers prefer native apps on their phones

Alternative end game: the browser dies slowly, gradually being replaced by native apps. We're already seeing this: consumers prefer native apps on their phones for virtually everything: shopping, socialising, reading news. Surely the future us will laugh at web browsers as some ancient tech that used these weird markup languages to layout content that's monetised with ads into pages that you'd navigate back and forth in order to emulate an application? New web browser engines are now impossible to implement due to the sheer size of specs. Surely we are nearing the end game?