Edit: I'm already using Electron, though I've been wishing I could move away from it.
Not sure what time period the original commenter is referring to, this story has developed quite a bit over the past year, even into last month - https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2022/06/27/delivering-th...
Edit: and if your alternative is Electron, WV2’s fixed runtime is the same concept as Electron in a static Chromium version - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/con...
Edit: And I've generally followed the "bundle every dependency" approach. As far as I can recall, the only dependency in a shipping product that I ever delegated to an external installer was the .NET Framework (before the .NET Core reboot). And IIRC, that did trip up a few users; thankfully, that was only a consumer app.