[ac29]

Perhaps you're being hyperbolic, but can you give an example of an application that runs more or less the same functionality and performance on a 30 MHz processor with 12MB RAM (a high end computer from the early 1990s) as a 3GHz processor with 12GB of RAM (a high end computer from 2017)?

[dreamcompiler]

I'm guessing you're not very old. Interleaf on an original MC68000 Sun workstation. The Symbolics Genera IDE. Pretty much every app on an Amiga or Mac II circa 1990. Most of these apps were more responsive and more capable than Electron with single cores and 1/1000 the resources. Making clickable animated widgets on a windowed screen that tightly integrate with the OS doesn't (or shouldn't) take much software. But we seem to have forgotten that.