I would offer the view, that for teams flush with money, everything you said is great. But if you're a solo dev or in a small team, deployments and finding the correct balance is actually tricky to manage. Developers created a solution to the old deployment problem by abandoning it and doing something else. That problem exists and you'd think it'd just be solved now so rolling out a desktop app wasn't such a crazy pain.
I worry that software engineering is building a lot of tech stacks that need active maintenance and can't really go into a classical long term support style use.
> Developers created a solution to the old deployment problem by abandoning it and doing something else
Also by shipping a standard webview and js app, if you want to go that route. But there were plenty of cross platform solutions before that, most notably java.
Of course you know all that, guess I'm just trying to remind us that desktop deployment wasn't that unsolved and still isn't.
I worry that software engineering is building a lot of tech stacks that need active maintenance and can't really go into a classical long term support style use.