>My hope is that the same realization will eventually come to web developers as well.
What makes you think that they don't already realise this? What suggests to you that web developers work on webapps for performance reasons, rather than familiarity with the technology or ease of development (or cross-platform support, or lack of user barriers, etc)?
The insane proliferation of SPA’s, electron apps and the general attitude of “dev time is more important than app performance” of the front-end community suggests performance isn’t a real concern.
What makes you think that they don't already realise this? What suggests to you that web developers work on webapps for performance reasons, rather than familiarity with the technology or ease of development (or cross-platform support, or lack of user barriers, etc)?