Ask HN: Why does the Slack desktop app suck so much?

The headline boils down to "<name of software> sucks" (close to a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question). Can you list a couple of arguments or detail?

Bit of a leading question - it used to be worse, use gigs of ram, etc. I don't hate it anymore for this, but I must say, I'm not a fan of the growing number of features and complexity...

What did you do to make it use less ram? I'm in three workspaces, two mostly inactive, and I need to shut it down every few days to free up a few gigs.

There's not even a lot going on there, somebody pasting an image url that gets shown or a link that gets a preview is pretty much it - still, it starts with about 200-300mb per workspace and gains weight faster than I do over the holidays.

Memory utilization used to be much worse ;) They improved it.

Not keeping the platforms UI Guidelines in mind. Apps should adapt to the platforms they run on.

It’s Javascript running in a stand-alone browser??

This is the future of web tech.