Well, for starters, web applications without internet connectivity are, at best, an inferior experience. Secondly, web applications are inferior in terms of bot

Well, for starters, web applications without internet connectivity are, at best, an inferior experience. Secondly, web applications are inferior in terms of both user experience and performance in all but the most trivial applications. Thirdly, developing for the web is actually at least as much of a pain, if not more so, than supporting native code bases for multiple platforms. The difference is that webdevs have shifted that fragmentation from the native SDKs and APIs into the webdev versions of the same thing (JS frameworks, browser support, etc.).