It always bothered me, that applications have to ship and load their own copy of chromium and node. I don't get the compatibility argument. After all, websites

It always bothered me, that applications have to ship and load their own copy of chromium and node. I don't get the compatibility argument. After all, websites have the exact same problem to solve and do that just fine, most of the time. For desktop applications you could even require a given minumum version of electron installed on your target system. If its not there, your installer offers to download and install/update it. Also, instead of including a copy of chromium and node, electron could just use installed version of those.