> He “backtracked” because his “sweet solution” wasn’t good and everyone wanted native apps and web apps were called “a shit sandwich” by developers.

Sure, the 30% cut of all sales was just a sweet coincidence.

> You mean making an app that’s actually performant on the majority of phones out there?

Twitter and Uber have PWAs for countries where low-end devices are the majority of phones.

> They have never been good enough.

Complete bollocks, there are plenty of excellent web apps out there, and it's one of the most important mechanisms for software delivery nowadays, in both the enterprise and consumer spaces. You are a fundamentalist and there is no point discussing anything here anymore