Exactly. The industry has encouraged mediocrity and in-efficiency with over-abstraction and abusing technologies in areas where it doesn't make sense for basic software.

This is what you have seen with the rise with some of the worst technologies (Javascript) being used in places where it shouldn't because some engineers want to keep using one language for everything.

Which is where you have basic desktop apps written using electron taking up 500MB each and use 1.2GB of memory. It doesn't scale well on a typical 8GB laptop on a user machine.

Not saying it should be in assembly either (which also doesn't make sense), but the fact that today's excuse is that a SWE is used to one language is really a poor excuse.

Nothing wrong with using high-level compiled languages to write native desktop apps that compile to an executable.