No one wants that. But many like to write their apps only for one plattform - and then still have them run allmost everywhere.
The web is the best we have to achieve this. And this will greatly improve the possibilities.
Edit: My app will soon finally use no more html elements. It is not a "webpage".
I very much do want that since the WebGPU API is far easier and nicer to use than Vulkan or OpenGL. Also, it makes apps much more accessible to distribute them over web, and it is much more secure to use web apps than native apps. Unfortunately WebGPU is way too limited compared to desktop APIs.
If your “app” runs in a browser window—a window presented by a browser engine—it’s fundamentally a web page. (They’re two distinct words.)
So no, I do not want to replace native code with a web page. But in some cases with web apps.
I'm going to revisit electron / nw.js for games again this year. Last time I tried 4-5 years ago I could not get smooth animation with request animation frame.
I recommend pixijs.
But it depends what you do, smooth animations of some elements is possible with html. But in my case it got complex and html was the bottleneck. Now I have the same assets in Pixi and it runs around 100× faster. No more lags, no stuttering. No more html.
(Allmost, some static content is still HTML, but that is fine, as long as the DOM does not get modified)