1) Packaging/general polish. With the server solution the user doesn't get a desktop icon, or a single .app/.exe, etc. Their window manager doesn't work with the app the normal way. Etc.
2) Certain other native integrations. An electron app can populate the Mac menu bar, it can use native right-click menus, it can do rich notifications that aren't constrained to the browser's notifications API, it can show a red dot in the system dock, etc.
3) Stability of pinning to a specific Chromium version.
This can work for some things- mostly developer tools where users may not care as much about polish and may care more about reducing install size. But it's not really a replacement.
1) Packaging/general polish. With the server solution the user doesn't get a desktop icon, or a single .app/.exe, etc. Their window manager doesn't work with the app the normal way. Etc.
2) Certain other native integrations. An electron app can populate the Mac menu bar, it can use native right-click menus, it can do rich notifications that aren't constrained to the browser's notifications API, it can show a red dot in the system dock, etc.
3) Stability of pinning to a specific Chromium version.
This can work for some things- mostly developer tools where users may not care as much about polish and may care more about reducing install size. But it's not really a replacement.