Isn't some kind of balance important? You want to have code that you can maintain and that others can work on, but also efficiency. I don't know if it's one of those 'unobtainable golden middle' things, but I feel as though C didn't strike a bad place with regard to system programming.

Unfortunately I've found graphical toolkits just really unpleasant and unportable to work with. I would much rather write for the web. However I have never used Electron.