Just the other day I did an experiment while writing a new Electron app. I created a Hello World -- once using React, and another with just static HTML & Vanill

Just the other day I did an experiment while writing a new Electron app. I created a Hello World -- once using React, and another with just static HTML & Vanilla JS. The React version, literally just the default Hello World page, was already noticeably slower and jankier at startup than the static HTML version. Tack onto that experience however many NPM packages the average React app imports, maybe some hastily written synchronous calls that play fast and loose with your main thread, and it's not difficult to see why Electron and web apps in general get a bad wrap. It's not unavoidable, it's just lazy practices.