[kartan]

> TL;DR: "We tried to make a responsive web app act like a native app and it didn't work because it doesn't work, and that makes me a grumpy goose."

Complete agree on this, and I think that it is the most important point here. It's similar to the when people try to code in one language and complains that doesn't behaves like the one that they are used to. Browsers are designed for a function, or a lot of them, force your design ignoring web needs is going to produce a buggy hard to maintain software.