Downloading a giant electron application which bundles Chrome and Xbox joystick drivers just to write to a flash drive feels downright criminal when there's a 200kb program that will do the same job already on your computer.
I personally use dd for such cases as well, but I don't mind downloading a "giant electron application which bundles Chrome and Xbox joystick divers" (I just downloaded Etcher and it takes 40MB on my machine) if that's what it takes to lower the risk of accidentally wiping my hard drive when I want to write an ISO to a USB drive.
Electron makes the problem of flashing totally solved. I have a 1TB SSD for exactly this reason, so I don't have to worry about what's light and what isn't.
