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Meanwhile, we're still waiting for those "pro-native" people to give us better user experience.

I agree that Electron has its issue like having multiple copies of Chromium (and not Google Chrome).

Obviously native apps are better overall, but only if they provide a better UX. Being a vscode user, I don't know which native editor provides the same UX.

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Emacs provides a better UX, Visual Studio (proper) provides a better UX, Sublime provides something close, although not as good. Slack's UX is incredibly basic. It's a couple of steps above a basic CRUD app. There are billions of IRC and XMPP clients ranging from toy to professional-quality, I use IRSSI, which is admittedly basic, but I find it hard to believe that there is no better native chat UX in existence than Slack's.

>Emacs provides a better UX

VSCode is clearly aimed at people who disagree with this statement. It's hardly a matter of objective fact.

There are native editors reaching from very bare bones (vim) to medium like VS Code (Sublime) to full IDE (Visual Studio). All of those run native interfaces.

Sublime is a hybrid. It has its own renderer that doesn't use Cocoa on macOS, for example, and I believe its input fields aren't native, either.

"Native" should mean that it uses native UI widgets offered by the platform itself, which hardly any editor does.

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