You got a fair point, I suppose same can be said about serving a JS webUI on localhost. Incidentally, both provide an easy way of doing clouds - and before anyone starts foaming at the mouth, think a beefy program running in a big server in your closet which you access from a thin client on your phone or weak laptop.
Problem with electron is that it's like when they say the cure is worse than the disease. It's slow, bloated, and the ease of use attracts shit devs who amplify those flaws tenfold. But then again, slow and working is still better than not slow and doesn't work.
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No, he's right on this one and it's you who is too preoccupied with whether he should, to recognize why it's a shortcoming that you can't say he could. By way of analogy, if a poor craftsman blames his tools, what does a poor toolmaker say of the craftsman?
The point of a UI framework is to make it as easy as possible for people to create whatever UI people have thought up in their head. A UI framework is not a pedagogical tool. There are absolutely bad ways of doing UI, and people should definitely be taught to avoid them, but the UI framework is not the right medium for doing so, just as your car is not the right medium for teaching you to not drive drunk or speed (although perhaps you are a fan of breathalyzer keys and speed limiters, I don't know).
For a UI framework, more customization is generally a good thing because the #1 thing people want with UI elements is to customize them. Moreover, it's very useful, because a lot of people hate UI and are only doing it out of necessity, so you have even more users than usual that don't understand a lot of your framework and are just trying to get by with what little they know. If a person only knows buttons and would much rather not learn about links now, a frankenlink made from a button is, bad though it may be, still a way to get them to do what they want and it's still better than nothing. Kind of ironic that UI is supposedly the classic, perfect OOP problem, but actually it's a very duck typy thing. From the use's perspective, it doesn't matter whether it's actually a link or a button or an image with an onclick handler or whatever the fuck under the hood, it only matters what it looks like and what it does. And then there's the usual problems like diamond inheritance or circle-ellipse.