The rise of Electron was purely because you can share the codebase for real with the web app (for lots of apps it is their main focus) and get cross-platform support for free.

Native apps are not bad to develop when using Swift or C#, they are nice to use and their UI frameworks are fine, it's just that it requires a separate team. With Electron you need much less, simple as that.

> As for the rest: minor variations in traffic light positioning and corner radii are topical but hardly indicators of decaying platorms.

I think it shows how important the platform itself is to the company. The system settings app on macOS is literally slow to change the topic (the detail page is updated like ~500ms after clicking).

I personally love to develop desktop apps but business-wise they rarely make sense these days.