Re: I like Electron but...
I think it's just a symptom that some manufacturers think having their software look & feel like other software is for squares. This was always an issue in Windows mostly with software like drivers, antivirus and media players. We'd see all kinds of terrible UIs with windows with rounded corners, non-standard controls, brushed metal, horrible fonts etc.
In the past they might have rendered their weird GUI in C++ with Win32 APIs, but these days they'll use Qt / QML or they'll wrap a browser to do it. Qt / QML costs money for commercial use so I assume many are cheaping out by using Electron. And so it is they write some glorified dialog box in JS, HTML and CSS and users suffer a massive install and runtime for it. And clearly in some cases it comes with a free exploit on the side.
Anyway, I much prefer it when Windows supports a device out of the box because there is no need to deal with this BS. I'm sick of bloated drivers, or worse, ones that run constantly with embedded nagvertisements, spyware, e.g. many printer drivers.