Native with minimal custom styled accents can be good looking, polished, and professional, and it doesn't throw platform conventions and features out the window

Native with minimal custom styled accents can be good looking, polished, and professional, and it doesn't throw platform conventions and features out the window to boot. Native looks bad only when the developer doesn't care. I really don't think its such a great idea to reinvent the UI wheel, throwing the decades of research and refinement represented by native UI toolkits under the bus for the sake of branding and aesthetics, unless you have a good reason — a really good reason, like having to create brand new UI for a task that prior hadn't been performed on computers before. I also see electron apps as stopgap measure, not a solution, and this feeling is reinforced every time I open up Activity Monitor and see Slack or Spotify sucking up upwards of half a gig of memory while sitting there doing nothing.