(Looking at the videos: global color swatches please, it’s super powerful to be able to change everything drawn in a color - fills, strokes, effects, etc - with a few clicks.)

I'm eager for that feature too! The node graph engine recently got the ability to represent that concept, so now I just need to find the time to design and build the UI for it. I utilize that feature a lot in other software so it'll be really helpful to have in Graphite as well.

If you don't have a way to bundle up a collection of nodes and apply it to another object or bring it to another document with just a few clicks, that's super powerful too. I rely on that constantly in Illustrator. And constantly grumble at the fact that there's no way to have folders in the Graphic Styles palette where these collections of nodes live, since I can easily have a dozen styles for one character when I'm doing comics.

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although I just played with it and judging by the state of your layers palette there's clearly a lot of stuff to do in terms of organizing the elements of the document in general - to me, documents contain one of more layers, that contain paths, compound paths, groups of paths, and/or layers, and I can choose to place new paths at the top or bottom of any layer (or inside a clipping path); Graphite just calls every path a "layer" and this becomes very unwieldy within a few seconds of drawing shapes.

Is Electron really so different in your experience than a PWA?

Personally, I always try to use a PWA when the app is otherwise offered via Electron.

If it’s going to depend on a browser engine, it may as well be the one I already have open and update regularly.

I’d prefer it to be one that the developers have specifically targeted and developed/tested against, especially if there’s any GPU involvement.

I want my applications to live on my computer and be able to do things like say “this new update breaks my workflow, I am rolling back to the last good version until they get this shit fixed”. This has happened multiple times with Illustrator.

Also they say "native" apps are coming which I am assuming means "actually talks to the OS properly instead of going through a web browser", I have loathed Electron apps ever since Evernote got rewritten as a pile of webshit.

This is a webapp via web assembly, when they have a desktop app Electron will have nothing to do with it.