I see what you are saying but I disagree. You can do 'interesting' things on the server side. It is more expensive for you but that is how you justify charging for it.
Not to mention WebAssembly should take a bite out of 'native' apps in the future.
BTW, I am not talking games here, but even things like CAD software for construction is slowly moving to the "cloud" (server) so that workers can more easily access it from devices without super GPU's.
If your entire user base gets accustomed to using your app, and then it is dropped, they will go find the next best thing.
the whole idea of not building apps is that your users will never be using them thereby expecting them from you
The guy from parker says use 'bare metal'. Basically he is saying just rent server instances and don't use fancy proprietary products like AWS S3, Cloudfront, RDS, DynamDB, Amazon Linux, etc. make sure you have virtual machine images that you can move to another service or even to an on-premise server.
Oy Vey, had to read this twice. I thought TDW went hard alt-right by giving this a sticky. I am retarded.