The difference with software and real things is the physical weight, size, and mental effort to manage them. Electron is pretty well optimized these days. Once

The difference with software and real things is the physical weight, size, and mental effort to manage them. Electron is pretty well optimized these days. Once something is not notably slow on the oldest cheapest hardware I own, I lose interest in making things any lighter or smaller. I think the backpack is a good metaphor though, because I don't want to avoid Complexity, I want to avoid metaphorical "Weight". Like, take Etcher. What it does could be done in just a few kilobytes, instead it's 80MB. But I have the 80MB to spare, and it loads fast. So I use it(Except on Pi when I use the far better Pi flasher that lets you do headless config right while burning the card). Now, if Etcher was not available easier and I had to compile it myself and actually deal with all of the libraries, I wouldn't like it as much. It would "weigh" far too much. If it took time to load, or was unreliable, I wouldn't like it.