I believe use of Electron is known as premature deoptimisation and if it had been a thing when Knuth coined the original phrase I'm sure he would have come up with that term too. Use of Electron to deliver software is popular and works but that doesn't make it any less of an abomination.

I'm actually considering, for the first time since 2013/14 when I worked on a Visual Studio extension, creating a piece of desktop software - and a piece of cross-platform desktop software at that. Given that Microsoft's desktop story has descended into a chaotic mishmash of somewhat conflicting stories, and given it will be a cold day in hell before I choose Electron as the solution to any problem I might have, most likely I will roll with Qt + Rust, or at least Qt + something.

20-odd years ago I might have opted for Java + Swing because I'd done a lot of it and, in fairness to Swing, it's not a bad UI toolkit and widget set. These days I simply prefer the svelte footprint and lower resource reuqirements of a native binary - ideally statically linked too, but I'll live with the dynamic linking Qt's licensing necessitates.