It’s like the other comments are living in a parallel universe.
What part of the article did they actually read? Isn’t the Slack/Electron resource utilisation screenshot enough to prove an important point?
No, Electron-based applications are not better than “they used to be.”
We all fucking know why Electron got all of these companies interested in making applications with it: cheap, probably imported labour to build applications. That’s it. And no, it is not better “DX” either. NPM and the NodeJS ecosystem in general are toxic and unsustainable for larger applications.
I am aware of the difference in philosophy taken by both Gnome and KDE, but would you mind elaborating on the ‘assholes’ bit?