[latexr]

> Developing an app using Electron gives such tremendous benefits that it far outweighs any downsides.

As someone who wrote performant Electron apps, I disagree. Electron has great documentation, but I found little else to praise.

> stable and secure platform

A major factor to me stopping to write Electron apps was the frequent updates needed due to some new flaw upstream. To make matters unbearable, every time there was an update something else had changed with the build tool or the Electron API, which I then had to relearn and painstakingly change everywhere.

I like apps to be done, I don’t want to be forced to babysit in perpetuity an otherwise working app.

> Storage is cheap

It is not. People buy computers and mostly stick to the internal disk which they can’t or don’t know how to change. No one is happy to have to buy and use an external hard drive because their apps—which are orders of magnitude larger than they could be—are eating up all available space.

[aspyct]

I can't comment on your first two points, but in the context of video editing, yes, 500MB is cheap. Most of us photo/videographers are used to handling hundreds of GB of data.

[latexr]

> Most of us photo/videographers are used to

You’re used to professional apps which do a lot. LosslessCut is a simple, limited app (I say this as a positive) which is perfectly usable by non-pros who don’t deal with that much data.

[birksherty]

> in the context of video editing, yes, 500MB is cheap

This type of thinking is pretty common in HN, where they live in a rich country. Then the same people apply their situation to whole world. It's not same in developing world. People still have to manage their savings for storage.