[eudox]

>Electron apps also get none of the native L+F that you get if you use an actual toolkit properly.

This is a selling point. CSS can make an app look beautiful, native look-and-feel is always atrocious, everywhere.

[boomlinde]

The obvious advantage to native look and feel is that it will be familiar to users, and that consistency in itself might make for an overall more beautiful look.

If I use 5 applications and they all look entirely different, it will not look beautiful, and each time I swap to a different application I have to re-familiarize with whatever the UI designer thought was a good idea for that application.

[lucian1900]

Is it atrocious? At least on OS X, iOS and Android, the native UI is quite good.

[IMcD23]

Key word can. It's also important to give users a familiar feel across the apps on their platform. The UX must make sense to them.