Why do billion dollar companies use electron instead of building native apps?

Question

Software and Internet Services

Just wondering why companies like Microsoft or Facebook used electron for their desktop versions of messengers, and did not write a native client for each system (Telegram could)?
In theory, it is not a problem for such companies to hire another group of developers who will make the conditional Skype client also under MacOS? Despite the fact that the UI in these applications is not particularly complicated. Or are there other nuances?
If someone used to write under the desktop on WPF / WinForm and switched to electron, share - why?

ps Sorry for the tag - I couldn't find a better one.

Answer 1

I don’t know how right I will be or not, but it seems to me that not fools are sitting there either, and they also know how to count money, even with billions in income.
But the main reason, as I think, is the speed of development ......
They also have deadlines, plans, and it's easier to maintain one code than 2-3 versions of it.
And I will add that a lot depends on the task itself and the software, that the electron alone copes well with all tasks.