Electron apps: web browsers in a trenchcoat

FastMail released a native, cross-platform app a while ago. It's an Electron app, so, basically web pages and web browsers running locally. It looks almost exactly like its web page. FastMail desktop app on the left, FastMail web page on the rightThe only discernible difference is that the native app doesn't show the mail capacity indicator for unknown reasons, but the rest is pretty much the same. So, you expect an Electron app be the better version of a web page. In FastMail's case for example, you can access your email even when FastMail is offline, which is huge. If that's what you're looking for, great even. You could also do that with PWAs too, but Google decided to kill it anyway. In the end, my experience is almost always worse with Electron apps.When I install the app, it chooses a text size based on Operating System defaults. That makes sense, but immediately something to set up for me. Because a web browser is for reading, and the operating system is for pressing buttons,…