How are you evaluating tool fitness here? The ultimate criteria for fitness are organizational &#x2F; business goals, and that business or organization may have to juggle various constraints. Electron offers extra flexibility for businesses to make tradeoffs on app performance and size versus engineering cost, and that&#x27;s its most important value.<p>At first glance, Electron apps should be <i>more</i> maintainable, not <i>less</i>, because it&#x27;s one toolset for multiple platforms, which should translate to faster development time and less total cost of maintenance at the tradeoff of app performance and size.<p>Also, whether an app is difficult to maintain ought owe more whether (1) you have multiple diverse codebases and toolchains to maintain, and (2) that you have a disciplined engineering strategy.<p>Again, whether or not Electron is the right tool for the job is a <i>business</i> decision based on <i>business</i> constraints.