If we "concede defeat" of the mobile web, then we wind up with only content and functionality that has been approved and can be killed on a whim by Apple and Google. Wars have been fought over freedom of expression, and now we have voluntarily given two companies and the governments they answer to the power to crush anything they don't like, based upon cryptic and arbitrary guidelines. That is a truly scary world.

Like many things, native is perfect in theory but in practice comes with massive drawbacks. A happy medium may indeed exist, but "conceding defeat" of the mobile web isn't going to get us any closer to it.