Anecdotal evidence from Newatia: a Speedometer test on an iPhone 6 scored 24.8; an iPhone 13 mini scored dramatically higher; friends/family on Android phones score 60–100. Even allowing for non-scientific methodology, roughly 3x improvement over 2014 — the era when Zuckerberg's anti-HTML5 quote and Cordova's reputation were formed. The performance conditions that justified the 'hybrid apps are slow' belief no longer hold.