Let's not pretend that such business decisions are following rules written down on stone tablets passed from above. They're nothing more than going with the flow and following the path of least resistance in a market that painted itself into a corner of inefficiency and technical inferiority. Chiefly because of Google's empire building, VC money and the quest for millions of users.
Those two facets of quality, or the lack thereof in the applications which are being discussed are undeniable and the offence will continue to be perceived until the underlying problems are resolved.
Watching the rhetoric of the web dev community over the years, I have the impression that previously they thought that the one big technical improvement will come and that will allow them to compete on equal footing with native applications. Now they've given up and just mumble something about Electron being cheaper - an improvement, even if far from the ideal :-)
Those two facets of quality, or the lack thereof in the applications which are being discussed are undeniable and the offence will continue to be perceived until the underlying problems are resolved.
Watching the rhetoric of the web dev community over the years, I have the impression that previously they thought that the one big technical improvement will come and that will allow them to compete on equal footing with native applications. Now they've given up and just mumble something about Electron being cheaper - an improvement, even if far from the ideal :-)