I cut my teeth during that era and the level of complexity asked for from those apps was minor compared to what people will demand today. Your native app will a

I cut my teeth during that era and the level of complexity asked for from those apps was minor compared to what people will demand today. Your native app will also require every machine to install a bunch of extra libraries before they can even run your little CRUD app. At some point you maybe wrote a cute little auto-update function that let you update the application automatically... until IT slapped your hand and told you never to do that ever again. You could write a similar web app in any modern framework in just a few days as well, and have it work on any device with a browser. It updates automatically and IT doesn't give a shit. Yay! I have a pet theory that one of the big things that drove SaaS adoption was that people didn't need to deal with IT gatekeeping. You could get the latest software RIGHT AWAY! As soon as the devs finished it! Incredible!