To put this another way: I have an Electron-based chat client that consumes 265 MB of disk when installed, plus about 180 MB of data, most of which looks like

To put this another way: I have an Electron-based chat client that consumes 265 MB of disk when installed, plus about 180 MB of data, most of which looks like it comes from Electron rather than chat-related stuff. A native client for the same chat service consumes about 10 MB installed, plus about 15 MB of data. That's a 10x-25x explosion in SSD wear with every app update, which happens frequently. There is also an explosion in ongoing wear every minute that I leave it running. I haven't measured the latter, but judging by how often Electron writes cache and web session data, it is surely significant. Electron is incredibly wasteful. If a web interface is absolutely necessary, please just serve it on localhost and let me use my existing browser.