> In the article, the claim is made: if many popular software products like Slack, VSCode, and Docker Desktop all use Electron, then it must be good. I don't k

> In the article, the claim is made: if many popular software products like Slack, VSCode, and Docker Desktop all use Electron, then it must be good. I don't know anyone who thinks these are good applications, with the (imo incorrect) exception of VSCode. I can't believe that any significant number of people involved in these UX designs have even the slightest clue what users want or value. We're just aping what the big guys are doing because they're big and refusing to examine this decision at all. Maybe what's best for users is not the most flashy, bloated application possible. Maybe users want interfaces that make it quick and easy to accomplish a task without being manipulated into spending as much time as possible in the app for.... reasons? My extremely cold take is that software should be useful first and pretty second. If your artistic vision gets in between the user and their task, then you have failed utterly as a designer.