Well, you make good points. I don't disagree with you. I'm weary of drawing the discussion towards pitting web apps against native apps in absolute or general

Well, you make good points. I don't disagree with you. I'm weary of drawing the discussion towards pitting web apps against native apps in absolute or general terms. I think that would detract things too far from reality. It's a complex debate because the 'right fit' - native or web app - depends on the use case or business case as well as the perspective of the stakeholders involved: developers, business owners, customers and users. The many trade off's each and every stakeholder has to make are what sparks tensions and debate. Speed is just one of those. It's true that web applications have set a new bar as far as customer / user convenience as well as application maintenance are concerned. But then there are also trade off's regarding privacy, confidentiality, security, legal compliance, accountability, trust, expenses,... There's also reliability / availability of a services, and there's even a moral question regarding energy consumption tied to operating data centers. Again, I'm not going to take position on those in absolute terms. Rather, I think it's very much valid to look at your own business case or use cases and keep taking native applications into consideration as well, rather then dismissing them outright as yesteryear's technology. > Maybe the current web isn't what was envisioned. I'm ok with that. Oh, I'm okay with that as well. It's interesting to see you use the phrase "current Web" because what is the "current Web" exactly? In the vast majority of discussions, it tends to be reduced to the well known big tech companies and their products. For many the "current Web" is mainly Reddit, HN, StackOverflow, LinkedIn, Medium,... For others, the "current Web" might be a plethora of self-hosted websites which they have bookmarked in text documents. Your mileage really varies depending on who you ask. The Web is far larger then the perception we get from it through our own daily use. And a vast amount of it will remain dark simply because we either can't find it, or because we aren't aware it exists, or because we simply don't look for it's existence.