alt Hacker NewsDiscord could have been a lack of resources as I previously said. They weren't a billion dollar company when the application was conceived.
Regardless the only thing keeping those millions of people at this point is lock-in. Even then people are actively looking for ways to move away from it. I'm witnessing the migration now and am looking forward to the day I don't have to hard restart the client 2-3 times a day.
What does any of this have to do with choosing an electron app over a native app?
What does any of the malaise about discord have to do with their choice of runtime?
It is an untested hypothesis that if discord had a native app, all the problems that people complain about would disappear. I think people in hacker news like to just assert the hypothesis because sounds better than cross platform. But in this particular case, it is fundamentally untested. We simply don’t know that the app would be better if it were native.