That's not even remotely true. We are seeing significant, growing app development on the "hybrid" stack at Ionic, and strong interest in Progressive Web Apps.
I agree that web apps are faster to iterate but the user experience is guaranteed to be worse.
I've worked on some of the web apps that are usually featured as "see web can do this". I'm not an outsider. I'm just observing how any app that is successful is either native already or they are making it native asap
At any rate, we have a number of well know brand flagship apps built on Ionic, though they might not have usage patterns like Facebook/Snapchat. By far the most mobile development happening right now is outside of the well known consumer social app space.
That is not the metric. Is fast-UI, not how many devs are lazy or don't know how do native.
I invest more than 2 months researching the space this year (after several other times before), and seriously, only iOS is fast enough for html/webview.
Android is SUPER slow. I mean, i get your ionic sample app and run it on my test device. I touch once... and wait a century (sarcasm) for it to respond..