I’m sure there’s a lot more to discover here, and that we can rethink the web and its relation to natives based on the actual strengths and weaknesses of native and web instead of an idealised version of the web that isn’t really in touch with reality.
During that time period and to this day people are chasing "emulating the native experience" in the browser.
But even back in 2015 PPK wrote Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat:
And more recently A clean start for the web (also Second-guessing the modern web, If not SPAs, What?) - the "application web" needs to stop chasing the native experience and devise leaner ways of successfully working with the most hostile development platform in the world.