[sixstringtheory]

Other commenters are rightfully pointing out the continued performance issues, but just as important for me is the platform citizenship of electron apps.

The glut of new ones I use for work on macOS: VSCode, Slack, Notion and Height all have different keybindings than any other apps, some completely disable command+? which I use to find/learn commands for operations I don’t already know. Some just don’t use the menu bar at all. Layout is awful in them, like slack threads being a sliver of the right side of the window, or notion’s usable area maxing out at 800 pixels, or height’s window being fixed to a minimum of 800. Some don’t respect auto dark/light mode. Notion has completely upended many tried and true patterns from word processing. Links take you to the browser based version instead of deep linking to the app.

Of course there are some things I do like about each app, but for me they aren’t worth the tradeoff for the ramp up time on a new product coupled with the annoyances I encounter when using these new apps. I can get things done just fine in a github repo full of markdown, or apple notes, or email, or Xcode, or textedit or sublime text, and on and on. Not to forget the venerable command line. I think the one web app I legitimately enjoy using is trello.