Main and often repeated argument against Electron is that it has a browser embedded inside, and that's why it's so bloated, slow and taking up so much memory.

Main and often repeated argument against Electron is that it has a browser embedded inside, and that's why it's so bloated, slow and taking up so much memory. Yet you give counterexample of using... a browser as a client/frontend to vscode. Well it doesn't remove the exact main problem with Electron, does it?