It’s like the other comments are living in a parallel universe.
What part of the article did they actually read? Isn’t the Slack/Electron resource utilisation screenshot enough to prove an important point?
No, Electron-based applications are not better than “they used to be.”
We all fucking know why Electron got all of these companies interested in making applications with it: cheap, probably imported labour to build applications. That’s it. And no, it is not better “DX” either. NPM and the NodeJS ecosystem in general are toxic and unsustainable for larger applications.
Not gonna happen, the developer made it quite clear from the get-go. Also, their community are quite hostile against it and pretty much most FOSS stuff for some reason.
I can see a fork taking what is useful about it (UI/UX) and adopting solid backends (federation, proper VoIP with screen sharing, etc.)