Programmer Humor

Because the app stores keep adding new requirements that you have to add code to deal with and it gets worse every year and seemingly every day.

There's lots of valid reasons for this.

Imo the biggest one people don't account for is this: Dev salaries are incredibly high. if you want fast performance the most optimal way would be to target the platform and use low level native code, so C++ or Swift.

It would cost you like 20x more than just using electron and it will cost you bigly if you have multiple platforms to maintain.

So it turns out having 1 team crunching out an app on electron with hundreds of dependencies is cheaper, naturally that's what most companies will do.

Don't want to use electron ? Then it's kind of the same issue except this time you're using Java and C# and you have to handle platform specific things on your own (think audio libraries for example). It's definitely doable but will be more costly than using a cross platform chromium app.

Stares at Mullvad...

It's nearly all just using a whole library instead of the specific single function thats actually required, because few people are actually writing any code these days.

Why are you asking? Are you trying to prematurely optimize these apps?