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> Seamlessly? How is Electron not seamless?

Because it duplicates the overhead of an entire browser (and Chromium at that) rather than the overhead of a single webpage in an already-open browser?

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Sure but that has nothing to do with the idea of being seamless.

Seamlessness is a UX concept, not a memory/resources concept.

Responsiveness, start up time and resource usage absolutely affect the user experience.

It becomes a UX concept when your laggy application sticks out like a sore thumb.

So overhead for a single app might be comparable, but each subsequent Electron app that I replace with a Safari Web App would use significantly less CPU/RAM

I believe so. I would hope that the overhead for "having more than 0 webviews open" is global across the entire OS; we know that macOS uses a global shared library cache at least.

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