[Vinnl]

It's interesting that you mention that GTK is not native enough, but do not mention that for Electron. It looks like (and I feel this way) GTK hits the uncanny valley, whereas Electron is different enough (and applications written in it are used to spending effort on looks) to not run into that problem.

[kodablah]

I find this inconsistency interesting as well. It's like if you used a "flat" GTK theme and avoided traditional UI elements like MDIs, menus, and toolbars, you'd be divorced enough from native to leave that criticism behind (granted there are others). I think this is what makes QML, JavaFX, and HTML+CSS more popular recently...desktop-like expectations are out the window (per se) before you start.

[jhanschoo]

otoh, I think that with Electron, people are sufficiently acclimatized to web apps for them to feel at home with it. GTK feels like a java app.

[oblio]

Yup. The default interface for almost every normal users these days is a web interface. Yes, there are mobile apps, but even on mobiles, users will need to use websites, despite the best efforts of vendors at lock-in into their walled app gardens.

Heck, even on desktops, sometimes the UIs feel quaint and antiquated: no back button/undo by default, many times scrolling failures at different resolutions (the settings screen doesn't fit at a certain resolution and the button is out-of-screen somewhere), text can't be selected and copy-paste by default...