>Qt is not nearly as easy to use as Electron, especially if you're a small company and need to hire front end devs for cheap.

Sure it is.

>Also Qt GUIs look like garbage, but it's hard to quantify why.

No more garbage-like than you're getting with Electron and just as style-able (with arguable superior layout engines). Qt has a number of style palettes; perhaps you're used to using applications which chose to use non-native/standard palettes.