I don't think that apps necessarily chose it because of the reasons you mentioned. It is most definitely due to productivity, but there are ways to mitigate the

I don't think that apps necessarily chose it because of the reasons you mentioned. It is most definitely due to productivity, but there are ways to mitigate the CPU and battery usage -- I often have Spotify open on my Mac and it really doesn't use much CPU (often less than either Safari or Docker), and it doesn't suffer from poor performance most of the time. I would say that while Electron apps, as a whole, are generally worse than a native app, there are ways around the issues that plague some of them that depend on the developer(s). For example, VSCode and Spotify having pretty good performance and not hogging CPU, while Slack and Atom the opposite.