alt Hacker NewsThrowing in my vote... I've been doing everything with wasm-bindgen/web-sys, i.e. just doing my UIs in html, and for 99% that's what I'd want anyways. Web UIs are portable, remotely accessible, and don't require installation on each client.
For the small percent that's left where speed is critical, I've just been using wgpu and wgsl-bindgen directly.
I can't think of what I'd want a native UI solution for. And then having to deal with porting it to iOS, Android, Windows, Mac etc, dealing with app stores (3+?) submissions, developer fees, rejections... vs just using HTML which works on all platforms. I don't think I'd use a native UI even if there was one. Not that HTML is great by any stretch...
(I made Sunwet, this is what my stuff looks like: https://github.com/andrewbaxter/sunwet )
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saving this comment, this echos my own thinking, html is not great but its better than dealing with all those things you listed.
Web UI is fine for web applications, obviously.
But for desktop applications it is bloated, a big attack surface.
HTML/CSS is made for online documents, and using it for applications is a bit hack that happen to work, but hides a huge ton of complexity behind frameworks and frameworks of frameworks with leaky abstractions and each their own caveat.