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Please take a look at actual screenshots from the 90's to quickly disprove your assessment.

The only other argument you mention is that native apps take much longer to develop, and that from that somehow follow that they are "shitty". I'm not even convinced the premise is correct, but I certainly don't see why longer development times would imply worse outcomes...

Intuitively, I would assume the opposite: something that is put together all too quickly should have a higher potential for being half-baked.

I'm not criticizing your preference, I just don't buy the arguments.

But like, do they. Personally, I've found using a high level native UI API (like Racket's) to be much easier than a webapp. More flexible and performant too.

Personally, I hope that web browsers die off and we go back to gopher for displaying information. I hate the web.

Personally I feel like webapps are really holding us back but to each their own