> It's an attempt to save the more expensive thing (engineer time) for the cheaper thing (RAM) especially in the face of rapidly improving hardware (which may no longer be true).
It's worth noting here that Electron trades engineer time you pay for against RAM your customers pay for.
On the other hand, Electron got things to a state where Linux is often supported and where I can usually run the whole app well sandboxed in my browser. So in the end, it's not that bad for end-users like me, either.