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But I think even there it’s possible to encounter platform-dependent bugs - starting from view issues (you know, different OS can use different browser engines) and up to those related to system APIs.

I think Tauri tries this approach.

Of course. Arch for example ships packages that use a shared system electron. But you'll often end up need multiple electron versions.

There's also stuff like lorca which shells out to an installed Chromium browser.