We already know HTML/CSS are not the best way to do layout. We already have many desktop based UI frameworks to create cross platform desktop apps.
GTK, QT, etc which are also superior to the single app, limited size focused Android/iOS UI frameworks. More importantly, unlike iOS/Android, they’re even cross platform.
HTML/CSS/JS are successful because of the same reason electron exists. The success of the web means there’s a huge developer base that knows how to work with HTML/CSS/JS which was the original lingua franca of the web, and there are tons of libraries, frameworks, tools, components, etc available in the HTML/CSS/JS world that makes development easier and quicker.
GTK, QT, etc which are also superior to the single app, limited size focused Android/iOS UI frameworks. More importantly, unlike iOS/Android, they’re even cross platform.
HTML/CSS/JS are successful because of the same reason electron exists. The success of the web means there’s a huge developer base that knows how to work with HTML/CSS/JS which was the original lingua franca of the web, and there are tons of libraries, frameworks, tools, components, etc available in the HTML/CSS/JS world that makes development easier and quicker.