It is certainly possible to make high quality, well behaved software with Electron (VS Code is great), but it takes a hell of a lot of work, and seems to be the

It is certainly possible to make high quality, well behaved software with Electron (VS Code is great), but it takes a hell of a lot of work, and seems to be the exception rather than the rule. Look at Teams for example. The Electron desktop app is a slow, buggy, resource sucking mess. A video call with one person reduces my laptop battery from 8 hours to 2, fans going at full tilt the entire time. It uses its own notification system that doesn't (or at least didn't) respect the system notification settings. Lots of small things you innately expect to work, like being able to right click a message to edit it, simply do nothing. Of course, take this with a grain of salt, because I'm generally of the opinion that the DOM is a mediocre target for applications, and that we all put up with it because it's attached to the world's greatest distribution mechanism. So to me, the fact that we'd want to bring all that awkwardness to the desktop and divorce it of its killer feature seems insane.