Before Electron/VS Code popularity, finding an official Linux release for popular GUI software felt like winning the lottery. You'd occasionally see an exuberant front page Reddit post about some random chat client finally releasing a Linux version after 12 years of "coming soon".

Post-Electron it quickly became the norm to support Linux at release and people would expect to see it on day 1. Especially for anything vaguely dev related like the YCombinator startup of the week.

And it would have 1:1 feature parity with the Windows/MacOS version by default, not missing half the features or frozen in time at V1.0 like some "in name only" official Linux ports I remember having the misfortune to use.

It's been memory holed by now after Electron became ubiquitous and associated with bloat. But it (and webapps in general) made a huge difference for "year of the Linux desktop" to be as viable as it is today.

The year of the Linux desktop has been made viable via WSL and Virtualization Framework, or shipping the Linux kernel underneath ChromeOS, WebOS and Android.

Electron has made nothing to change that, only a even worse experience than what GNOME and KDE apps have offered since the early 2000's.

Don't worship stuff like i3 stuck in the 1980 early window managers, and the apps will be there.