Well, yeah, but that's a refutation of the entire web. Maybe we should go back to the days when only a chosen elite was able to distribute writing or software to a wide audience?
Cross platform desktop toolkits are usually SIMPLER to build apps in because they don't have the document-centric baggage of HTML/CSS/JS stack.
People have been building cross-platform software since forever - heck, in 1980s you had to port your game/software on several different architectures and bedroom programmers (far from "chosen elite") regularly supported Ataris, Amigas, Commodores, PCs and other platforms.
Which one is simpler than Electron, in your opinion? Because it seems like a lot of people would like that sort of thing.