I think most people making a good ol' desktop program these days do it because they need very liberal access to the filesystem, or access to weird hardware peripherals. If they don't need either they could just put their app on the web!
Looking at the top apps on Mint's "app store" shows this trend too, everything is an editor of sorts (code editors, photo editors, video editors, audio editors, painting, modelling etc.)
Looking at the top apps on Mint's "app store" shows this trend too, everything is an editor of sorts (code editors, photo editors, video editors, audio editors, painting, modelling etc.)