I agree, in part because of performance, but also in part because I value being able to bootstrap from source as much as possible. There are only a few projects seriously working on this, one being GNU Guix: https://guix.gnu.org/

The trouble with Electron apps though (and most Node apps) is the sheer number of dependencies. It's just infeasible to package them for a distro if you care about their dependencies being packaged as well - at least, not without the entire process being automated.