"just UX". I think this attitude separates you from a lot of native iOS and Mac developers, whose primary focus is UX. Indeed, one might say that's the foundation of those whole platforms.

> I just assumed lots of people think like this due to the dearth of nice UIs on top of apis.

What dearth? Like I said, Twitter used to have a great third-party app ecosystem before the company intentionally destroyed it.

Of course my interest in UX separates me from other developers. There are lots of people making a living doing UX. And I’m not one. But my point is, it seems like those UX people aren’t creating lots of open source projects, or commercially viable projects, to provide nice UIs on top of apis.

You speak vaguely about "people" making Electron apps, but the big issue is that big companies are making Electron apps for popular web services, and the popularity of these web services is why a lot of people are complaining about the Electron apps.

> it seems like those UX people aren’t creating lots of open source projects, or commercially viable projects, to provide nice UIs on top of apis.

Which APIs are you talking about? It's difficult to make a commercially viable project on top of obscure or unpopular APIs. The point of my original comment is that popular APIs can generate their own native app ecosystems.