I'm pretty sure this was known since the early days of Electron. It was even one of the chief complaints about VS Code when it was first launched.
Electron's value prop has always been about having one team producing one app that is supported on multiple platforms with minimal additional effort.
This article does nothing to address that.
> Electron's value prop
"Now you can have the cross-platform compatibility of a single-page application just by bundling Chrome."
The problem is that it made everyone's life worse.