> Keeping the user in mind when making these decisions may make you consider more native and less resource-intensive alternatives Usually the choice for the us

> Keeping the user in mind when making these decisions may make you consider more native and less resource-intensive alternatives Usually the choice for the user is between "have an electron app in a month" and "have native app in a year", most users prefer to not wait, and when native app comes in a year, electron app will have much more polish, and run acceptably on new hardware. The issue is not about 'protecting poor users'. Most electron apps are quick experiments, to test out an idea without spending too much resources on it. If idea is great, and performance is an issue, and there are enough users to get a team of highly skilled developers to work on it, they'll create native app, replace electron version (and then embed js vm to support plugins:).