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Nonetheless, the Microsoft-managed app ecosystem on Windows is sad for so many reasons. Ask me about Hardware Support Applications....
If you require native speed, there is zero way to get there via Electron without a convoy of wagons.
A tooltip change (warning) to the sharing view would be sufficient to address the concerns that the first page is displayed as part of the preview for those with Google Drive integrations enabled.
You should change your tl;dr to reflect that one can view a preview of the first page of a shared Google Doc, despite not having access, when provided the sharing link and with Google Drive integrations enabled.
"Management" seems too worried about the wrong optimizations.
Each person has the right to work without distraction, and, in some cases, it may in fact be the case that they do not want you to distract them.
The implementation (as monolith or microservices) follows from the design, and should be as decoupled from reliance upon the skill set of a single individual developer as is possible.
As a dev that uses Go frequently, and dabbles in Dart / Flutter, I would not complain!