It's a fair point that other things waste unimaginably more, but in terms of debugging -- omitting the frame pointer hasn't been a debugging headache for a lon

It's a fair point that other things waste unimaginably more, but in terms of debugging -- omitting the frame pointer hasn't been a debugging headache for a long time and even if it were that still wouldn't itself justify running it on every host under the sun including the vast majority that will never have any debugging run on it. I doubt C debugging has had a meaningful role in the use of electron in any case.