I also agree, though i did check ionic in intel xdk, and the performance was better, especially in lists, some of the transitions behave a bit different than in chromium build… built it is better. though, i also think the performance in android needs a bit of tweaking, I am sure the ionic team are working on it. maybe do native scrolling inside the app to feel more snappy or such.
if ionic can pull the android performance standard with their framework, i am almost sure it will be the standard…