Okay, maybe you have to use Slack or Discord at work.
Life and engineering are about trade-offs. That people use Electron apps despite the downsides just shows that these apps are delivering value to the world. Value that might not have existed had Electron not made it that much easier for people to get into desktop software.
The complaining on HN reminds me of how my users get mad at me for not spending more of my free time developing the forum software. Like I'm trying to spite them. As if I just need to pull some knobs and levels.
What's happening is that software is getting more and more accessible to people. Beginners are making games in Unity and iOS. Cultural channels into tech like Twitch and cryptocurrencies have been opening up. I watch my cousins' children open up the browser's console to delete annoying DOM nodes.
What I suspect is that more and more people are getting into tech, so there are more and more people for you to disagree with about trade-offs.