A bloaty app that's not platform native is still infinitely more usable than something which doesn't exist at all. Electron is one of a number of technologies

A bloaty app that's not platform native is still infinitely more usable than something which doesn't exist at all. Electron is one of a number of technologies which allow things to exist (in a non-optimal form) that might not be economically possible if a bigger team or a lot more time were required to ship them. IMHO the sad thing is not that Electron exists, the sad thing is that we don't have stuff that's way easier like hypercard or VB6 was.