I think you can run MVC applications locally just fine. Instead of shipping electron you'd ship a server runtime, and you'd access the application on localhost

I think you can run MVC applications locally just fine. Instead of shipping electron you'd ship a server runtime, and you'd access the application on localhost instead of in the web view of the electron app. Unless you're talking about PWA, but in theory you'd get MVC PWA apps that do that same (but you're right in that it's an endless cycle of distinctions without a difference in the JS ecosystem).