I don't think this necessarily has to hold true (Discord for instance have implemented their apps really well), but in reality this holds true for most electron apps in my experience.
I don't know - clicking links seem really sluggish in discord - both on Android and on my surface 4 pro. It's odd, clicking on an image link in a browser is instantaneous on either device.
Could just be me, but the Discord app is full of glitches and random pauses for me. The app is better on my phone, but on several Linux distros the feel of the application is just off to me. Switching servers and channels has a tiny but noticeable delay that I haven't seen native applications have.
Unfortunately, there aren't many native applications any more. At this point I'd prefer a Windows application that works in Wine over yet another "cross-platform" Electron webbrowser-with-builtin-website.
> Discord for instance have implemented their apps really well
No they haven't. The discord electron app is a trash fire. I use discord in Safari. It's just as bad UI and UX and slowness as the electron crap, but at least I get a few more hours of battery life...
Since I removed the electron garbage from my phone, my battery life tripled from one day at most to three days...
Discord is unusable at times too. But compared to other Electron shits, Discord is above average when it comes to performance. But in the end, when compared to Native apps, performance wise, Discord is still shit. It's nowhere near Telegram.