[fenwick67]

I hear this preached all the time but I honestly don't believe it.

Few third-party applications I use on my Windows computer have a native (or native-looking) UI. Blender, Photoshop, text editors/IDEs, DAWs, video editing software, even web browsers... The only real exception is the file dialog and the window frames.

If they went to match the native UI they would dilute their brand at best and lose usability at worst.

[mcbits]

One thing I can do in almost every Windows application is press Alt, or Alt+F, and use the arrow keys to navigate the menus. This has been broken forever in Electron's menu. It's my biggest complaint, even above RAM usage now that I have enough RAM. I guess the Electron devs can take that as a compliment if they want to, but it still gives me a "damn you Electron" moment every few days.

I think it's the sum of those little inconsistencies that bug people about cross-platform apps. On the other hand, people now spend so much time in the browser that a browser-based desktop application can probably feel more natural than a native UI if done right.