I feel bad for folks using Electron. As soon as they try to demonstrate their hard work, the top comments are people vocally decrying Electron's resource usage, not their app that they've spent a lot of effort on. It probably feels very demoralizing when people instantly disregard your app due to Electron's resource usage.

Electron is a very easy way to develop applications, and it's definitely doing something right. I've written Gtk (my preference) and Qt for ages, and developing stuff in Electron was mind-blowingly fast, trivial to debug, and trivial to produce packaged binaries for multiple platforms. It's very difficult to achieve a similar development experience with native toolkits, and I think we'll continue seeing more Electron apps until native toolkits offer a comparable development experience.