I've been working on a hobby app for some years that is a modern refresh of an old idea. As the article exhorts (and just for funsies, it's just a hobby) I'm writing it using native code and to be conservative on resources.

Every place I need to render text or make a thing respond to a mouse click I need to manually do all my own text layout and event handling and so on. (The app is in a domain where it needs special rendering -- I can't just reuse a system widget or library like Qt for this.)

Meanwhile, people are making apps similar to mine on top of Electron and banging out features way faster than I ever could. If they want some popup to have some bold text, or use the GPU to animate, or properly handle Arabic text layout, they get it all for basically free, they just need to bang out some divs. I am jealous.