When and where it's a priority: creating a solid user-experience takes effort. If a project can't manage that when it matters, then their product or service is also going to suck in so many other ways their users will notice. Then native or not, it won't matter when everyone hates them.

Mac and iOS are relatively-straightforward, aren't terribly different, and share development resources.

Android (Kotlin) doesn't often lead to suicidal ideation.

Windows is meh.

Linux is so-so.

> So electron makes plenty of sense to developers

To mostly front-end developers who don't know much about the world outside of a browser.

> , even although it's an egregious resource hog.

Violating nonfunctional requirements to be usable, performant, and efficient.