I skimmed the article. Editing is 90% of writing. Anyway, the answer to the (rhetorical?) question in the headline is that there are millions of web developers

I skimmed the article. Editing is 90% of writing. Anyway, the answer to the (rhetorical?) question in the headline is that there are millions of web developers out there and there is a perceived savings in not having to retrain them. So, that's why. Since he claims to have been around for 30 years, he should remember that this is a cycle. We always sacrifice something for interoperability. There's no reason not to make an electron app if getting it out now with your current set of programmers to as many platforms as possible. Anyway, making the best out of constraints is just engineering.