I still can't for the life of me see why Electron was ever a good idea for apps like Atom. It's not like they haven't had to lean on native solutions before - t

I still can't for the life of me see why Electron was ever a good idea for apps like Atom. It's not like they haven't had to lean on native solutions before - they've already rewritten their JS based buffer in C++. Is it really that hard to find people who can write native UIs these days?