This is a horrendously presented argument with close to no interesting content. Aside from being voted up by people with an HTML-axe-to-grind, what's the point

This is a horrendously presented argument with close to no interesting content. Aside from being voted up by people with an HTML-axe-to-grind, what's the point of this? One particular point that gives me a laugh - No matter how much you optimize your app, it will always be slower than a native one, and the users will feel the difference. This is a broad claim that is unsupported. Both native and web apps are layers of abstraction over OS rudiments. There is nothing stopping both from offering identical performance, however HTML usually falters simply because people layer on abstraction over abstraction, where they take the simplest approach with the native app.