There are a lot of security reasons to get away from compiled native code as well as convenience reasons. Something like Spectre/Meltdown could have been mitigated completely with a JIT upgrade.

Then there's the huge advantage of encouraging more competition in the CPU market. Something like RISC-V would have a much better chance if you didn't have to recompile everything for it.

I'm surprised native binary is still the standard. Back in the 1990s when I saw Java and then .NET I thought it would be dead by now outside of specialized high performance libraries for things like codecs and cryptography.