I think some of what is offensive about the Electron situation is that way too many Electron apps are things that live in the tray or try to hijack the applicat

I think some of what is offensive about the Electron situation is that way too many Electron apps are things that live in the tray or try to hijack the application lifecycle. So these are not just burning up memory but they are burning up memory for some trivial thing in the tray and making your machine slow to boot and complicating UI for the tray.