Not lazy, sensible. The market has spoken and it wants bloated electron apps with rapid development, rather than performant C/assembly apps that hardly ever change.
All Electron apps users were demanding something that eats up their RAM, crashes and run slowly?
The market demand seems more like:
Jack: "Our bellowed CEO wants us to deliver our wonderful app to unwashed masses still using a desktop. Our enlighted marketing team made a study which realized that for whatever weird reason, corporations and businesses still make heavy use of those boxes which come with a mouse and keyboard attached."
Joe: "Sure thing boss, we will have to hire some programmers and testers and will take about a year or so."
Jack: "I forgot to tell you that the marketing study already took a year and a very large budget because we hired the best of the best to do it. One year we don't have, money we don't have. But what about those people who wrote our web app? We still pay them. Can't they deliver?"
Joe: "We will have our glorious desktop app in two weeks, boss, I just had an idea."
Jack: "Do that and I will personally remind about you to our bellowed CEO when he will want to do some promotions."
The power dynamics of companies/customers are often not as dynamic as all that.
If slack is electron and I work at a company that uses slack: I must use it.
The competition in that space is all electron, you can’t choose.
It’s like saying that “the market chose non-ECC ram”. No, Intel chose for you and you don’t get much choice except to suck it up (or pay well above the odds.)
It takes a lot to avoid using a product. I mean people still use Oracle products!
That does not actually contradict the point. We got stuck in a suboptimal local maxima due to the all early design decisions of browsers and JavaScript. The original inventors did not expect anyone wiring web version of Google Drive on the web.
The market surely pushes against the bloated electron apps, yet the convenience of having the same app on web as well as "native" and the amount of man years which went to make HTML+JS the richest multi-platform UI framework on the market is more important.
There is no market for things that just work on V1.0 then continue to work flawlessly. You wont sell a version n again and again and there is no support contract for something that does a single thing and does it well.
