How will people notice if you are using Electon, but not if you are doing this? Is Electron doing something that makes it unnecessarily slow or are you saying that people are just conditioned to think Electron apps are slower?
Unless I'm missing something that I really don't understand...
I was quite keen on chrome apps, as they allowed you to share the chrome browser runtime in a similar way. If you add a native desktop shortcut, and use the chrome-hiding features then you can basically replace electron with a shared runtime. I have a dim memory that it may have been killed/hobbled now though...
In that case, I would expect a large difference in memory footprint, although both options would be bad in terms of having a non-native user interface and user experience.
Is this incorrect?