[mikestew]

I do feel more and more that cross-Platform is a illusion like you say.

As it has always been, my son. I've been hearing the wonders of cross-platform for going on three decades. Be it Unix->MS-DOS, Java on anything, or iOS->Android, there is always a compromise. Prior, it was usually that the app that didn't look native on any of the platforms. These days it seems the compromise is at dev time. But there's no free lunch. Maybe some day, but probably not within my career.

And that's fine, I now know that when the topic of cross-platform comes up to ask "what are we giving up? What will our new pain points be?" What I don't do anymore is think that this time will be different.