If nothing else it means that they’re using old versions of Electron for extended periods of time — long enough that the app becomes dependent on the quirks of

If nothing else it means that they’re using old versions of Electron for extended periods of time — long enough that the app becomes dependent on the quirks of that particular build, which is bad with how many vulnerabilities regularly appear in Chromium and Electron. Electron should be updated much more often than that, and barring major new versions with breaking changes doing those updates should be effortless because the app is resilient enough to not need particular builds of Chromium.