Nothing comes for free, but OP’s entire point is that the price to pay for even halfway decent native markdown rendering is too high - and thus a reason why people often give up and go to Electron.

They could not have made their point more clearly but people like you are up and down the thread wanting to call “skill issue”. The reality is that nobody gives a shit and they want to ship interesting things fast; if OS makers won’t get the hell in line and offer APIs to do it, then these developers are going to just pick Electron.

Life is way too short to sit down and write half a damn text editor when all you wanted to do was shit out a basic application with blobs of markdown.