From that angle, sure. But maybe every program running on my machine doesn't need to run a full web browser instance.
I run Slack, Discord, Signal, Bitwarden, Asana, VS Code, GitHub - all idling quietly on a 16GB MPB M2. Was the same on my M2.
It's overblown, I don't care about Electron, how it's made (I understand how), who makes it, no dog in the hunt, but there is too much FUD about it, IMO.
Yeah it's not as bad as people make it seem, but it's also far from ideal. Especially with how many tools we have nowadays to build performant desktop apps, a company of that size should really not be using electron if they know better.
It’s kids playing Roblox on a decommissioned school laptop in a third-world country.