Going through the sunk cost of making 5 different GUI's and maybe wrapping some syscalls/API for the same 90% core app, resulting in minimal resource usage. It's the correct computerscientific approach and companies like Microsoft can (and should) commit to it. Breaking changes nowadays are too few and far between.

You have work to do. And you get paid. No work - you're fired.

They could at least be trying to use the native multi-platform technologies they have bought/developed, like Xamarin or MAUI.

> The resource consumption of Electron is mostly of interest to computer scientists who like to see how small and efficient they can make something. But in this case, it does not really matter.

It matters to sysadmins. Some people need to also work on the computer and when Teams uses all memory they will close it.

No. It also matters to the users of the laptop and to the people who have to buy it, as using too much RAM can lead to slowness due to swapping and can make older laptops unusable.

It's basically having a third-party forcing programmed obsolescence at your device.