I agree. Also, when you look at UI benchmarks for web frameworks replacing/updating thousands of DOM elements per second, I have serious doubts the problem of

I agree. Also, when you look at UI benchmarks for web frameworks replacing/updating thousands of DOM elements per second, I have serious doubts the problem of web-based UIs is performance. I agree Electron is a cancer, but not because it uses web-based UIs, but because every app ships its own version of Node + V8. A couple of years ago I built a cross platform app using the native web view on each platform (WKWebview on macOS/iOS, WebView on UWP, Chrome web view on Android and ChromeOS). The app for macOS was like a 4MB download from the Mac App Store and it consumed like 15-20MB or RAM.