Whats the advantage of WA being used for cross platform development if it is not used along with the web stack? It would have a clear advantage if say the main difficulty with writing cross platform native apps was simply writing portable C++, rather than integrating with the various native UI frameworks
The advantage is having something more optimal than the web stack for application design, specifically than HTML, CSS and the DOM, which while surprisingly capable given their origins, are still a series kludges and necessary evils.
If we decide that the web stack is what Web Assembly runs in both on and offline, then we're stuck with the limitations of those formats forever, rather then at least trying to come up with something more fitting.
The main difficulty with cross platform native apps is that nobody's willing to pay for C++ devs with UX experience anymore. Electron makes such things possible even at the expense of code quality and performance - but by that point you simply won't care.
