Consistency is NOT the most important thing. Correctness is. This guy has been in the trenches flinging shit too long. I work with vendors and do my best to use the subset of their product that actually works correctly. I don’t want new features to work like shit just because the old ones did too.
Cheaper & faster development by leveraging large libraries/frameworks, but inability to automatically drop most unused parts of those libraries/frameworks. You could in theory shrink Electron way down by yoinking out tons of browser features you’re not using, but there’s not much incentive to do it and it’d potentially require a lot of engineering work.
Don’t they use super statically verifiable code for these kinds of applications? Like, Ada?