I don't know why anyone uses Tauri - disk space is cheap but having to handle QA and supporting quirks for every possible browser engine the users' system could ship with certainly is not.

Chrome DevTools Protocol, navigation stack control, download manager, permission mediation, certificate inspection, cache policy control, so nothing you can't implement in an afternoon

Agreed! I built a MacOS Postgres client with just Claude Code[1]. It could use some UI improvements, but it runs much better than other apps I’ve tried (specifically what it’s replacing for me: RazorSQL) and the binary is smaller than 20MB.

1: https://github.com/NeodymiumPhish/Pharos

For all the complaints about Electron, it's at least led to more widespread shipping of some applications on Linux.

Tauri's story with regards to the webview engine on Linux is not great.

Probably because they don't trust the OS shipped browser engine for small inconsistencies.

A webview gives way less control.