From my experience the reason why these kinds of platforms get used as much as they do is that it follows the concept of the fungible developer. It is painful

From my experience the reason why these kinds of platforms get used as much as they do is that it follows the concept of the fungible developer. It is painful and expensive to find an iOS/Android/Win32 developer because the pool of skilled developers limited. The promise around much of these frameworks is that any dev with web experience can handle these and become a cross-platform generalist. Faster and less expensive to find more/backfill developers and, most of the time, it won't cost anything in lost sales. // tangential rant follows The experience suffers but when you look at the tech landscape as a whole, there is little to no native application niche that is presenting an opportunity. Quite the other way, the prevailing trend is that everything is bring brought down to the limits of the OS's webview components. You even see this in, what used to be, pure native applications like office. One of the latest changes they're doing is replacing the room finder with one backed by a webview2 control. It sucks and is a lot less capable from the native version, but it is following the same path being charted by our industry.