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As a counter point: plenty of desktop software embeds web technologies these days and even AAA games occasionally use them. I think Battlefield was a prominent example for React being used in AAA games for UIs. The Horizon TV streaming box also had a UI written in React (rendering to canvas for performance using their custom Chromium build I think, but they wrote it so the UI could also be rendered to the DOM so they could use it in their web version).

Not disagreeing with what you said, but "not having anything to do with the web" isn't as clear cut as it used to be and web technologies are increasingly showing up in unexpected places.