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Opinion about full-stack web app teams?
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You mean people taking ages to release because the work is divided between multiple teams and each one is creating a slightly different feature?
Yes, I have seen that.
Or if you mean a team of generalists with an specialist here and there not suffering from this problem?
I have seen that too.
I have also seen people solve the specialization problem by making their own layer more general than it would technically need to be, and become about as productive as a full stack team. The interesting part is that I have only seen that done by generalists, so I really doubt a set of specialists-only teams can be really productive.
In your experience, is success dependent on each member (or most members) being T shaped?
It's dependent on many members being T shaped. Not all, and I don't know if "most". But you need enough to handle the basic flow of the system and interact with all of the specialists.