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As a solo founder, I doubt there are any other platforms that make economic sense to support, especially if it pulls effort away from the real money makers. Depending on the market, Linux wouldn't even make sense to support for most companies and it's only supported because Electron supports it out of the box.

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So really you only care about 2 operating systems, and you're willing to give up all the native integration opportunities on both of them for the minor convenience of only having to write one (bad, bloated, totally-out-of-place) GUI.

Developers in the 90s often supported 5 or more different platforms. How is it that modern development is so much worse?

that 'minor' convenience is a quite huge one given that he stated that the other apps wouldn't exist if not for electron.

that 'minor' convenience is a quite huge one given that he stated that the other apps wouldn't exist if not for electron.

That's an awfully bold, if unbelievable, claim given that cross-platform toolkits have existed for a long time.

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