[obrhoff]

It actually is. Fortunately, the quality of apps dropped significantly, allowing these technologies to compete.

[smoldesu]

To the contrary. Developing native apps is so painful that the average S&P500 company will treat it like a root canal. Given how meaningless native functionality is to them, they won't hesitate at the opportunity to serve you a shitty Electron app. Many of them are only successful because they didn't waste time writing native apps for each platform.

[tcfhgj]

why should it? it makes no sense to me; you can do anything

It just might be that you don't go all the way, because you think a 80% sufficient result is enough for you