Electron needed to be treated as an MVP bridge, not the permanent solution. Get your app quickly deployed so you can gain market share and user feedback while you work to develop she correct way

"Hurr durr, native app start faster?!?" Why tf is this a surprise?

Is this approach cross platform (meaning does it have Linux support for example) or are they talking about just Windows support? Isn't the whole point of Electron that it is cross platform, not that it is fast or resource efficient?