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While I completely agree with you about electron, I still don't have to enjoy the fact that companies are outsourcing their lack of development in native tech to my wallet in terms of wasting resources on my device. Now perhaps the cost of the associated services would be higher if they had a native app which is a fair response. I still don't have to like it.

Written as a user (and occasionally enjoyer) of electron based software.

It's especially infuriating when you have a giant like Microsoft rolling Electron on their flagship applications (Teams), and then deprecating support for some platforms (Linux). What's the point of your nice, memory-gobbling, platform-agnostic app framework if you're not even going to use it to provide cross platform support?

I don't enjoy it either and will go through the pain of writing GUI apps in anything but HTML,CSS and JS, but the ground beneath me doesn't exist as no contributions are coming from my side to make an easier electron alternative. There are other places I am hypocritical though.