Cross-platform toolkits are the lazy way. Good quality graphical apps are available in derivatives that match the interface guidelines and optimum toolkits/APIs of their platforms.
Good quality graphical apps sounds great, but do those exist for every single use case? Unfortunately not. It doesn’t matter how great the native graphical sketching apps on MacOS and Windows are, that isn’t going to help me when what I want to do is analyse packet captures. That’s when I reach for Wireshark, and do so full of appreciation to the devs for the excellent tool they have provided.
Would it be better us every platform I use it in had an equally high quality fully native port with full feature parity across platforms? Sure, but I also understand the huge extra commitment of resources that would require, so I’m content to let them choose the trade off that works for them.
