[muvek]

Those other "random clients" (as you call them) exist because your desktop client is bad. And I am being nice by just calling it "bad", it is the least performant client I have ever come across, even counting other electron-based software.

[Arathorn]

yup, the electron app sucks :) we are very very glad folks are writing native clients, and can't wait to kill it off. meanwhile we're working on its perf anyway, and if you look at the client redesign in the OP (riot.im/develop) you'll see it's actually getting better.