[jjaredsimpson]

Electron hate is an entry in the genre, "modern software is inefficient and bloated because devs are lazy"

This genre will never want for new entries because, devs will keep getting things done and critics will keep complaining.

Electron hate is a moral argument, "devs are wasteful." It's not a technical argument. People confuse their ability to conceive of software which has the same behavior as shipped software, but improves on arbitrary figures of merit, excepting "date of RTM."

[Piskvorrr]

Modern software is inefficient because this is a cost-effective approach to building software. Wherever you can't pretend you have infinite resources, this attitude instantly evaporates. In other words, bloat matters to users, but not to whoever directs development (spoiler: that's rarely developers).