The native client had features the web one didn't have, like video calls, so it was actually the one leading features-wise. I guess it's because they decided t

The native client had features the web one didn't have, like video calls, so it was actually the one leading features-wise. I guess it's because they decided to make the web client first-class, and instead of maintaining a native client for each platform (windows, mac, linux...) they opted to just serialize all non-mobile uses (which probably aren't that important to them to begin with) to web.