But the rise of web apps, and Electron along with it, have turned the Linux desktop from a "you need to dual boot or use wine" machine into one where all my tools and apps are Linux compatible and have feature parity with Windows and macOS.

I also wish Qt would see more use, I also wish more people would write desktop apps using desktop frameworks when it's meant to be a desktop app, and I really wish people would start writing tiny CLI apps in nodejs and include 70 dependencies. But truth be told, I'm happy to live in a world where I can do 100% of what I do on Linux without feeling like a second class citizen.

I think the "Web on desktop" paradigm is the future, even if it's currently a bleak one. Ten years ago, it was becoming pretty clear that Javascript would be the future, and at the time that was a bleak prospect -- but tooling improved and today, things like Typescript, React, the plethora of incredible development tooling and excellent cross-platform compatibility have turned what used to be bleak into an excellent environment.

There's a lot of improvements that can happen with Electron, if rather than fight it we actually embrace it. Running 10 different web browser engines for 10 different apps may be silly, but what if Electron was global to the desktop instead of included in every fat app?

You'll note that Google has been dipping their toe in that water for years with ChromeOS; Mozilla also tried their version of it with FirefoxOS, which failed for a plethora of reasons that don't undermine the concept at its core.

Basically, JS on the desktop is in the same uncanny valley as it was on the web a decade ago. It's ugly, slow, overwhelming and changing too fast. But there's an end goal there, which doesn't have to suck.