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I wouldn't call slide show apps niche at this point in history. https://web.dev/multi-screen-window-placement/#use-cases:~:t....

I'd say the need to not just move your windows yourself in that given case is niche.

Who writes native desktop apps anymore?

Sure, HP writes UWP application to harass you into buying more ink.

However a wide swath of firms develop on Mac for a Windows world, thus electron.

I have looked long and far for a good cross platform ui toolkit and I don't believe there is anything that comes close to the web platform.

It's an old legacy mentality when you can't imagine web systems filling the role of regular applications. Please update your mental models accordingly.

That you happen to think of the web as being for this specific thing that you imagine is not a fair constraint. The web does not want to be excluded from becoming more, please stop placing it in the corner.