It might not be so much a toolkit problem as a language or environment or even knowledge problem: someone might not be interested in working with C or C++ or ev

It might not be so much a toolkit problem as a language or environment or even knowledge problem: someone might not be interested in working with C or C++ or even in anything else they do not already know and if all they know is web stuff then Electron is the path of least resistance. Even if someone is interested in learning something, that doesn't mean they'd be interested in learning and making a project at the same time.