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@jalefkowit When I started at WhatsApp, they were building the native windows app to replace the electron-wrapped web app they were using. Everyone agreed this would be better because the windows app wouldn't have to wait on attention from the web team and could run in a highly optimized way. We built it and it was great, everyone was happy. It gets released, everyone loves it, reviews are super positive. Two years later: the team does not grow and the app starts missing features. The ratings are still good, the app is doing well, trend line continuing to rise, but it's closer to flat. Microsoft is killing off UWP and wants everyone to transition to WinUI3, an expensive rewrite which will be largely invisible to most customers. So, to save cost time and resources, they opted instead to kill the windows app and replace it with, you guessed it, a wrapped web version. What of the people hired on specifically for their knowledge of Windows coding methods? Told to find new jobs. I still carry the scar of this self inflicted wound.