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Specifically, Bazzite uses these and I have been really impressed since switching my daily driver from manjaro to bazzite.

Bazzite also ships with a lot of gaming software and tweaks/fixes preconfigured which is nice if that is important to you.

Honest answer? It makes it easy to release an application cross platform.

Personal / hot-take answer? Because we are human and our drive for mediocrity is astounding...especially when it can save a few bucks. Why make something good when you can make something less good faster and cheaper? That should be Electron's slogan.

This is the proper answer.

"Would I lie??"

Not the OP but just wanted to say thanks for typing that out. I think it perfectly answers the question, gives several examples/explanations, and provides further research resources. It's always genuinely great to come across posts like this.