PWA installs are another way to get onto a system. It's less resource intensive as you leverage the browser already installed on the system.

It doesn't work if you need extensive access to local hardware. But if you're mainly on the network anyway to operate, it's very frictionless and relatively lean.

With my last app, the network asset bundle is about 2MB, uses only ~11 MB on disk on my Mac and ~25MB RAM when running.

Yeah, and I meant that with a wink then wrote at lengthy justification for that thinking, lol. Oh well, I rephrased to take out the jest.

I don’t disagree with you about why people use Electron. There’s a positive feedback loop around ecosystem sizes. The bigger the platform the more devs use it the more tools they make the more libraries are made the more it’s the easiest way to do X the more applications are written for it the bigger the platform gets.

Anything you can offer to a large group of developers that lets them extend their existing high skill level to new domains where they would otherwise be novices is very likely to be adopted.