With well over 100,000 apps in the Play Store alone, from companies like Grab, eBay, Alibaba and Betterment; as well as copious usage by Google's own apps like Google Pay and integration into the Home Hub, this is a pretty low risk even if you have a skeptical eye at Google's track record. It's more than paying for itself in reduced costs internally, even without any regard to its external value to Google.
That said, VS Code absolutely shows what can be done in an Electron based app that works well and is very responsive for it's breadth.
hehe ;)
Interesting enough, react-native and electron distinguish themselves in the Est coast and always miss the Wyoming or the Dakota's while flutter is more evenly distributed.
Which would mean that the higher flutter level might just be google cannot distinguish between the common name and the framwork.Yet the flutter trend is growing so it's certainly the framework or climate change side effect :D .
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
I don't think it's a great justification, though. You could probably add Electron support to react-native for fewer engineer hours than it takes to build and maintain Flutter.