> I always get a chuckle at all the hate Electron gets on HN, or in very technical communities I, too, can tear down a straw man. But there are economical fact

> I always get a chuckle at all the hate Electron gets on HN, or in very technical communities I, too, can tear down a straw man. But there are economical factors at play here and it's strange that you think that technical workers are oblivious to them. Electron is compounding a problem that is not going away soon, or ever. People will not buy more expensive laptops to do their work (many simply can't). In the era of remote work the costs more laptops that can take the load that an Electron app introduces, is swallowed by employers -- and some don't want to do it. This pressure is mounting, I assure you. Employers keep complaining there are no employees -- and what they actually mean is "we can't find people with laptops good enough for Slack and Discord and Excel and we don't want to buy them those". And I am not talking about programming jobs -- there it's usually very well understood that you have to buy the staff good machines (although I've been issued some pretty average machines but hey). So employers keep screaming that they need more and better workers. The potential workers are like "eff this crap, I am not getting paid enough to buy a MacBook", plus many people have enough common sense not to reinvest their income in tech that company should have bought them in the first place. How do you think this tug of war is going to end? By proclaiming "coding with Electron" (or PHP / WordPress since you mentioned them) is a basic human right? (lol) At one point something will give out and I can assure you it's not going to be society. It's going to be the tech companies who can't ever be bothered to invest a little bit in creating a cross-platform GUI toolkit. So yeah, keep going on and on about how the technical people don't understand important things. From where I am standing it looks like that it's you who doesn't get it -- you are only bringing up ease of development, and there are much more factors in this situation.