Native code should be able to do more work with less power, yes. But in practice, these kinds of runtime efficiencies aren't the overarching factor. Native apps

Native code should be able to do more work with less power, yes. But in practice, these kinds of runtime efficiencies aren't the overarching factor. Native apps add features and these features in aggregate end up using far more memory, cpu, and being otherwise invasive into the system -- for example, the discord native app attempting to ptrace everything else on the system. The extra crap -- especially information gathering -- ends up making the native apps slower and buggier.