No it's not. If you want a fast full-featured cross-platform GUI toolkit, there are many: GTK+ and Qt are especially great, and have bindings for several languages.
However QML is an improvement. It was a bit quirky to get render the way you wanted and it was not native & look and feel, but maybe have gotten better since I used it. I could imagine that TypeScript + QML could be quite pleasant. Big downside is that the install size of your program is quite big.
I say that from the developer and the user perspective.
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You might not like the envelope they are pushing, but they are cutting-edge explorations into web tech, coinciding with other cutting-edge developments like HTML/JS -> Native interfaces.
Just because js is good on web, doesn't - and shouldn't - mean that we should be doing that.
Of the 3, javascript is the most dispensable, there's nothing stopping us writing platforms which have UIs designed in HTML/CSS but have a DOM controlled by python/c#/ruby.
I was not suggesting we stop progressing, but we need to recognise the phenomenal amount of overhead involved in replacing these 3 technologies. What benefit would be served when they can just be abstracted on top of, at least with regards to the web?
Case in point, Assembly Language, we could theoretically replace the standards that have been reached over decades of collaboration with something more suited to our modern leanings. But what would be the point, when we've long since abstracted it out of our minds?
HTML/JS/CSS is just a stepping stone like any other, not an endgame. Don't grow complacent with it. Demand something better.