> If a desktop application freezes up and crashes, users will gnash their teeth and curse your name while they are pressing ctrl-alt-del and trying to get their system going again.

Nowadays: Electron slop that will also eat a bunch of their RAM.

Personally I think that’s due to the failure of native development properly taking off: you know, actually being good and easy instead of a long line of dead or half dead attempts; alongside platform vendors hating each other and each having a vastly different GUI framework instead of some inter-OS WG to come up with at least good common standards.