alt Hacker NewsWhy are you stating something that is not true as though it were a given, and then using that unearned precondition as the basis for your question? The premise is false. Artcraft is a complete fucking trainwreck, nothing more than scamware that falls apart as soon as you poke beyond the deceptive facade that was used to build hype.
(That said, on the scale of blame for it being bad, I would say the GUI framework accounts for 0% of that and the programming methodology accounts for 100% of that)
This does not match my experience, I use gridcraft (excel), vectorcraft (illustrator) often; they work fine.
It's ~100MiB each, installs in seconds; I can point my agent at the github repo and it will be able to run it and control the apps; e.g. look at how excel spreadsheets actually render and adjust the layout.
I'm not a power user, but for my particular use cases artcraft apps are better than the original counterparts (install-size + agent control).