It's one of the best Electron apps I've used in my life, honestly. But it still lags a little behind what I would expect from the same software written natively.

That's the reason it's excellent IMO. I get nearly the same exact experience on every platform... including when you embed it's components within a web app which is very useful.

I might be the Lone Ranger that agrees with you.

I have a windows machine and a Mac machine. The electron apps are the ones most most likely to function exactly the same on both machines.

Setting up vs code was a matter of copying and pasting config file.

Yes, perhaps we're alone in this thread but with 14 million users (out of an estimated 24 million) world wide we're probably in the majority.

Picky users might complain but from what I see, most users are just fine with Electron apps. We all use Slack, Discord, etc. at work and everybody loves it.