Electron is not "good enough for people" because people don't know about it, or, to put it better, are not supposed to know about it. It's an implementation detail.

> sluggishness of the machine

So say a machine with 4GB ram and a decent 4-core CPU around 1.8 GHz is sluggish? Let's honestly say "we're sacrificing resources on the client side for ease of development on ours".