I disagree. I think the troubles of cross-platform GUI are overstated. People used to port software to a dozen different 8-bit micros and 5 game consoles using assembly, writing for Win32 and Cocoa can't be as difficult as that. Besides, it will incentivise you to make your interfaces simpler, while still providing you the ability to leverage platform specific features.
I think everyone is moving to electron because web developers are a dime a dozen.
I think everyone is moving to electron because web developers are a dime a dozen.