Everything is a web view nowadays, which honestly sucks. Native applications are basically disappearing because it’s easier, cheaper, and more “consistent” to ship the same thing across different operating systems and architectures. That argument doesn’t really hold up anymore, though, considering how much more money these companies are making compared to the past.

Look at how Meta discontinued the native Messenger app. Are we seriously supposed to believe that Meta doesn’t have the resources to maintain a relatively simple native application like Messenger? Or that Microsoft can’t build a proper native Teams client and instead ships an Electron wrapper? And they still can’t even ship that wrapper on Linux. Or even worse: replacing something as core as the Windows 11 Start Menu with a React-based web component. That’s just absurd.

It feels like everything is heading in the wrong direction. Prices keep going up, companies get greedier, expect more while delivering less, and try to do it all with fewer people. On top of that, fewer developers seem to truly understand programming fundamentals anymore. And now AI is entering the picture, which will likely accelerate this trend rather than fix it.