Sure, you can get stuff out faster by using a web view, but it will suck. It's the usual conflict between speed of development vs control. In the 90s we had Vis

Sure, you can get stuff out faster by using a web view, but it will suck. It's the usual conflict between speed of development vs control. In the 90s we had Visual Basic for that, but if you were serious about quality you would use something lower level. Linux is kind of a special case because its ancient ancestry and open philosophy means it doesn't offer standard UI components at all (and with Wayland, there's not even a standard API for creating windows). You either draw the pixels yourself on the screen or you use some library for it. But if you're targeting primarily KDE you would use QT, and if you target primarily Gnome you use GTK. With MacOS and Windows there is a rich set of standard UI controls implemented by the OS, that ensure integration with the OS and a consistent look & feel. When you use a webview you lose all that.