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It's electron. You're running a fully fledged Chrome instance(which at this point might as well be another full OS) in order to run a terminal emulator. This also means that it probably comes bogged down with all the shit which infests modern web development [1].

It also appears to take over lots of the autocomplete/history functions from BASH, which also means it will either not play nice with ZSH or carry over that functionality when used with ZSH.

Going over the screenshots there also appear to be a bunch of hand populated options/descriptions(unless it's auto filling based on man) which would take away a lot of the modularity.

Also, it appears to be coded in Node and the Read Me mentions Visual Studio, and REE M$ and all that comes in.

[1] http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

Got it. So the problem is with "based on Electron", I though it was the beginning of the sentence.

It's basically a terminal for use with the modern web, which is bad.

Perhaps OP doesn't like the idea of keeping an entire running Blink engine in memory just to have nice terminal features.

Electron is a hammer in search of nails

Electron is the new devil?

It's the new "let's store everything in XML" from the late 90s.

Electron and dynamic languages