Becomes again, Native AOT is the only way on WinRT since Windows 8, but has been stuck in C# 7 and .NET Standard 2.0, which contributes even more for the little love UWP still has.
Not just stuck - it was buggy and poorly maintained. We were forced to switch to Desktop Bridge after dealing with all the UWP performance and productivity crap and constraints just to have .NET Native one day stop compiling things right and leaving us stuck.
UWP was doomed to fail from day 1 because of how it was tight to UI framework and distribution model. Having a separate, incompatible implementation of the .net framework was another big smell.
If I remember correctly, WinRT doesn't use Native AOT. Native AOT has never been released before, and to me is the most exciting feature since generics in .Net 2.0 (circa 2005).