The "just use AI to build native" pitch rests on one assumption: that AI makes native easy
But if AI is that good (it is!), it removes the hard part everywhere, including making one cross-platform codebase output excellent native apps
So the non-obvious tilt is toward cross-platform, not away from it
When you realise this, you stop saying "what can we pull off" (burning tokens across two codebases to achieve "true native") and start choosing based on architecture, where one source of truth beats two every time
You save tokens, speed up delivery and get true native results along the way