The silver lining is that hopefully it’ll become too expensive to ship new Electron apps

You have too much faith in the software industry.

RAM has been cheap long enough and now no one remembers how to write efficient GUI apps.

I'm joking, but only kind of. It's not a domain that I do a lot of, but I haven't touched Qt in so long that it would basically be starting from scratch if I tried to write an app with it; I could write an Election app in like an hour.