I have actually tried Cordova for my app using angular and ionic. We failed miserably.

We kept hitting cases where we need something from native and we had to write native plugins. Developing native plugins is no fun task and in fact very painful to develop.

So we then tried writing native apps. We actually did it faster with developing a separate iOS and Android app. We are very happy with the result. The big bonus was that we are now able to conform to platform UI interactions better now (ionic does things in a very iOS way). The debugging facilities with native apps are way more awesome than cordova (which hardly has any on android. and it's hard to debug cordova stuff on ios too)