My comment was a bit rhetorical but I do remember that period well, as a regular user of DC++, uTorrent, Kazaa and others. It's just that the contrast hits you fresh in the face after several years of getting used to bloated web, .NET, UWP, flatpak apps, it is refreshing to install a full-fledged application consisting of a single binary less than 3 Mb, and whose UI doesn't treat me like I'm a mobile-totting child.
I wish we had more programs like this. They could breathe new life into older or less powerful systems, and get along better with multi-tasking (using several simultaneous Electron apps on a small or mid-tier system brings it to its knees while these computers would still be considered insanely powerful just a decade and a half back).
Windows Vista and up shipped with .NET 3 and .NET 2.0 was a one-time install for Windows XP that enabled devs to ship complete GUI applications with network, file system support, OS integration, COM integration, and more in a single 100KB binary.
I wish we had more programs like this. They could breathe new life into older or less powerful systems, and get along better with multi-tasking (using several simultaneous Electron apps on a small or mid-tier system brings it to its knees while these computers would still be considered insanely powerful just a decade and a half back).