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Once you have decided to write your desktop app in JavaScript/HTML/CSS it's probably the least bad option.

.Net Framework? JRE? Flash?

All examples of bad user experience, yes.

.NET Framework is preinstalled on Windows. If you don't target a preinstalled version and you don't bundle the runtime for your targeted version with your installer, of course that'd be bad UX. But the issue there lies with the developer, not .NET Framework.

Given that majority of Windows apps are written in a mix of .NET and C++, most users seem quite happy with the experience.

Puppeteer actually installs chrome for you (seems to be a minimal version of chrome), puppeteer-core is the one that uses a chrome installation you provide. I wonder if Carlo would install Chrome for you if it was missing

>I wonder if Carlo would install Chrome for you if it was missing

It doesn't currently:

https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo#q-what-happens-if-...

Perhaps it could though.

Bad for general use, but it could work for internal projects.