I guess developers really prioritize velocity or ease over everything. Or maybe it's business pressure or directives?
Platform-specific views simply aren't. For simple applications they might make sense, but at a certain point devs just want the shit to work. Electron solved that.
I do agree that LLMs & co should contribute to reversing this trend, though. I don't really see why you couldn't try to ship (true) native now.
Maybe once we didn't dare surmount the challenge, but today, the landscape is a lot better (and a lot less chaotic) and while yeah it sort of sucks in some annoying ongoing ways I can't imagine every org is going to find this some insurmountable difficult strenuous activity. Like, get good.
The anti-will against doing this drives people away from the web as platform.
They do have an ongoing effort to replace all of this with CEF, but it's still not done.
Even this is annoying compared to how it used to work, before they killed the IRC gateway you didn't even need a browser tab because it worked just fine in a terminal tab.
Yes, they're getting their bonus. No, we can't hire and onboard more people to deal with the insane demands being made as a result. Why do you ask?
2. While browsers are pretty compatible nowadays, not having to deal with WebKit/Safari quirks is a plus.
3. The platform webview isn’t necessarily that much more efficient.
Most of the projects that I have seen are trying to push past that and get towards actual native-native (non-webview) rendering because despite being an even bigger pain and more work, they come out a lot better than the webviews.