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Yeah, when running on a specific browser version targeting a single OS.

That's hardly true when it comes to CSS3 stuff that's been around for a decade.

Moreover, it's unfair to insist on portability when comparing native vs. Web without doing the same on the native side.

Only if the only browsers one cares about are latest version of Chrome and Safari.

There plenty of deployment scenarios with other kinds of browsers.

Of course it is fair, using something like Qt, wxWidgets, or even roll our own was never as complicated to get pixel perfect UI across OSes.

Is pixel perfect UI really what you even want these days? With high-DPI screens and screen scaling being a thing, not everyone's pixels are the same. And that's not even talking about accessibility for people with low vision who want text to be big and readable.

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