In practice it's much harder to maintain a native app. I am noticing this with ChatGPT Mac app vs. Codex Mac app. ChatGPT on Mac is constantly behind compared the web ChatGPT while Codex is shipping features at a much higher velocity.
Also ChatGPT hangs and has more weird bugs compared to Codex.
Did they run out of tokens? Why don't they ask their agent to update the mac version?
The issues with the ChatGPT Mac app could also be reflective of the state of Swift UI considering not even Apple themselves can ship Swift UI apps that aren't janky.
https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/swiftui_only_makes_it_eas...