dos88 - the browser version will soon be able to do almost everything the desktop download can. For example see this thread on using local file & folder saves in Chrome from the browser. The desktop download is just a wrapper for the browser version anyway, so is basically becoming redundant.
Native engines are a whole other ballpark, but I blogged a few years ago about why they're no silver bullet.
Develop games in your browser. Powerful, performant & highly capable.
Note I am very happy with C3 performance
but I am just wondering. (And I have no idea what I am talking about....)
if... as halfway house to native, could construct export to something like React Native (or similar) facebook.github.io/react-native