Electron definitely isn't the greatest: it's inefficient, duplicative, and makes your app way larger than it needs to be. With that said, IMO Electron is great

Electron definitely isn't the greatest: it's inefficient, duplicative, and makes your app way larger than it needs to be. With that said, IMO Electron is great purely for the reason that it opens desktop development up massively. I've written native apps before and it has been a world of pain. Electron lets me use tools and skills I already know to spin up desktop apps. I know I'm not the only one who this applies to, and there are a bunch of apps that probably wouldn't exist if Electron didn't. It's usually a false equivalence to compare Electron apps to full native apps. If the choice is between an inefficient Electron app, or no app at all, I'll take the Electron app any day.