Right, and the stupidity is twofold: that external access to resources (site/app) is a zero-sum game where x developers must be allocated to one or another goal without any coherence between them, which is source of the schism between app and mobileweb UXes, and that apparently nobody has spoken up to say that both products suck.
After being inside large, bureaucratic organisations, I've learnt that this is often the best explanation.