It's not (just) about money or profits. As a solo web dev, building for desktop with electron is faster. It saves me time, the most valuable resource. How I choose to spend that extra time - on more features or on vacation - is up to me. I don't want to spend it on learning yet another way (or several) to build UIs and apps, when I already know enough to make a good enough product for my goals. It would be great if Electron was less resource intensive, yes. There's Tauri and other alternatives that will eventually replace it and solve the performance problem.
You can blame OS vendors for trying to build a moat with OS-specific, not web-compatible UI toolkits. Don't want to touch that, don't have to, thankfully.
You can blame OS vendors for trying to build a moat with OS-specific, not web-compatible UI toolkits. Don't want to touch that, don't have to, thankfully.