[sixplusone]

>why Toyota Corollas and Ford F-150's don't use the same engine

Yeah, they're now a weaker (browser) engine bolted on with adapters to the gui engine. Everyone gets to go through the js bottleneck.

[FussyZeus]

To continue the metaphor, it's like every car has the same crappy transmission.

[HeWhoLurksLate]

More like Electron adds its own crappy transmission to whatever you had already