There is a vast amount of complexity involved in rolling things from scratch today in this fractured ecosystem and providing the same experience for everyone.

Sometimes, the reduction of development friction is the only reason a product ends up in your hands.

I say this as someone whose professional toolkit includes Docker, Python and Electron; Not necessarily tools of choice, but I'm one guy trying to build a lot of things and life is short. This is not a free lunch and the optimizer within me screams out whenever performance is left on the table, but everything is a tradeoff. And I'm always looking for better tools, and keep my eyes on projects such as Tauri.