Check out Avalonia. It’s like cross platform WPF. Not winforms, but still pretty good and easy to start with.

I mean, I can fix them, but not because I’m a programmer. Makes it hard for normies to understand the difference.

That’s basically how it happened.

While I completely agree with you about electron, I still don’t have to enjoy the fact that companies are outsourcing their lack of development in native tech to my wallet in terms of wasting resources on my device. Now perhaps the cost of the associated services would be higher if they had a native app which is a fair response. I still don’t have to like it.

Written as a user (and occasionally enjoyer) of electron based software.

Arguably, if you’re compressing the signal wirelessly via Bluetooth, the ceiling for quality is probably in that low couple hundred bucks market. Apple probes people will overpay for something but anything actually better is probably going to be wired.