> While I agree that Qt is an excellent tool in itself, and I love using it for development, it remains a fact that people wanting to use it will need to first learn a not so excellent programming language, C++ [1].

I'd say the opposite. C++ is alright, but some of the stuff in Qt is simply eggregious. From the nonsensical STL duplication to the absurd take on MVC, not to mention the MOC which requires special-purpose build systems, with Qt developers have to go through a lot to get to nice-looking GUIs.

I have a pet theory where nowadays the only reason developers feel compelled to go the WebView path to write desktop apps is because frameworks like Qt simply failed to pay attention to improvements in developer experience from the past decade or two. Thus developers prefer to suffer the headaches that come with the JavaScript ecosystem than having to deal with the headaches that go with Qt and the like.