[flohofwoe]

Exactly.

Electron is just evolution at work. The OS vendors had decades to fix their system UI frameworks and make it easier to write cross-platform UI applications.

But they didn't because vendor lock-in was always more important to them, and that's how you get Electron. You reap what you sow ;)

Electron has gone a bit overboard with the 'everything but the kitchen sink' philosophy, but the basic idea of a platform-independent application development framework is sound.