These are the same people who don't understand that a default, do-nothing app on something like macOS will be minimum 20MB due to the window backing.

I have a theory that the loudest complainers about this are the leftovers of the computer ricer era, who liked to display a bunch of metrics on their screen that mostly amounted to fluff. Electron solves real problems.

Signed, someone who's built and shipped native apps on the various platforms, and groans anytime he has to do a basic chart or whatever because it'd be 10000x easier in a web browser.

Edit: furthermore, the browser handles caching things like images and what not, which bloats up the memory in Electron. There is a way to force the browser to flush that stuff out, but nobody does it. If you have a local image cache for a native app and you don't flush it, you will get the exact same situation.