What's going on with Cordova/PhoneGap/Ionic these days?

People often ask me (ok, some programmer friends of mine sometimes ask me) what I would use to build a mobile app these days - would I still make a cross platform app with Cordova or Ionic these days. The answer is probably no, but it really depends on what your use case is. (and yes I will use the word Cordova from here on, but really even though the technology is a little different under the…