The argument is that both should be supported, which seems like a valid wish. There's really no reason to either-or this. Just have both work.
Well the two--building for power users vs for a general audience--often work against each other.
And trying to satisfy every audience at once is a good way to satisfy none. You don't want your app to be a Jack of all trades; focus is really valuable.
Which, if you made say a regular Win32 application, was guaranteed. These newfangled frameworks dropped the ball, if anything.