Dear Venko,
Thank you for your feedback, I’m Shaked, from the Branded App Marketing team.
The Branded App concept is a game-changer for business and we’re already seeing it from our users how have launched their apps to the App Store and Google Play. The performance is OK, as you said, and we’re working on it hard to make sure the experience will be faster and smoother every day.
I’ll touch the things you pointed out:
Budget:
Although a professional website is a must for every business, a native mobile app is not.
With a mobile app, businesses can increase their loyalty and engagement with the ease of use for customers, a native experience, and the fact that it makes interaction with the business way simpler. It will strengthen the brand precision, reliability, and will provide the customers an experience that fits 2022, where the majority of digital usage is via mobile. You can look at it as an “investment” to help you boost your business revenue. Yet one thing that it’s important to understand, a mobile app will help you to generate more from your existing customer base and it won’t work as a new funnel.
About the pricing - it’s not cost as, such as creating a website with Wix cost, but its way cheaper than developing one by yourself [agencies will start with $5,000 (not including submission to the stores, app updates, ongoing maintenance, website integration, content edits, payments providers, push notifications management, analytics and more)]
Spaces and Branded App Comparison: Spaces is an awesome product(!) that provides a great mobile experience for customers and great value for our users - for free. As you know, It’s more like a marketplace that features other businesses, and it might work for some business owners - if Spaces gives you the right solution for your business keep using it.
Branded App Lifetime Discount Extention: Yes, I don’t like the way it looks too, but here at Wix, there’s only one thing that is more important than what we like or do not like, and it’s our users. The reason for the 2 extensions is that we gradually rolled out the product to our users, over a few months, we wanted that all of them will have enough time to consider and purchase their own fully branded mobile app. If you’re still considering - hurry up.
Features Releseaes: we’re releasing new stuff pretty often - I’ll take that feedback back to our team to make sure we’re communicating it better so you and all of the relevant Partners around will know about it first.
And about us:
We’re still ambitious, very hungry, and above all, we work with all our might to allow business owners to create their own professional native mobile application - exactly the way they want, for them to grow and have success in their businesses.
Hope that it somehow helped you with the decision of purchasing a mobile app, one that you can create by yourself with the Branded App by Wix (and without code 
Wish you a happy new year!
Thanks,
Shaked
