I'm not sure that I entirely agree... VS Code is really well supported across platforms that otherwise may have been left behind. Contrast to say MS Teams, which doesn't have as broad support outside Windows/Mac, that irks me more.

I'm a pretty big fan of Electron + Cordova to reach a broader base of users. I don't think it's a net bad as a user who prefers the same tools on windows, linux and mac as much as possible.

There are a lot of things you get in the box with a browser based platform beyond the cross browser support. I mean even reflows and alignments working right are far more consistent, more easily. CSS/Styling is the same as the browser which is very flexible/capable. Some may dislike JS, but it gets the job done.

But on the flip side, I've seen people build an entire application (executable) or service from what could be a simple script in any given scripting language.